Salt for Svanetia [digital video]

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Publication Date:

1930

2017

Publication Information:

Flicker Alley, 1930.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

A 1930 Georgian silent documentary film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. As one of the earliest ethnographic films, it documents the life of the Svan people in the isolated mountain village of Ushguli in Svanetia, in the northwestern part of the Georgian Soviet Republic. Containing some propaganda, the climax of the film shows how a Soviet built road connects the previously isolated mountain village to Soviet civilisation. Many of the scenes of the film were staged, and the authenticity of some scenes has been disputed by the Svan people.

General Note:

Title from title frames.

In Process Record.

Film

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Motion pictures.

Genre:

European/Baltic Studies

Documentary films.

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