Salt for Svanetia (1930)

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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. (Wikipedia)
Genres: Documentary, Action, Adventure
AKA: Jim Shvante
Country: Soviet Union
Directed By: Mikhail Kalatozov
Written By: Sergei Tretyakov

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Feb 02, 2013 | Rey | 82 76% |
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É um documentário com um viés artístico tão vivo que é impossível pensá-lo apenas como um documentário. Inserido no período stalinista, o filme contudo está mais preocupado em retratar a vida e os costumes de um povo cuja isolação pouco toca o mundo soviético do que com propaganda em si (salvo pela crítica religiosa, contestada pelos locais, que a reconhecem fictícia), constituindo a grande riqueza do filme. É bonito e a música composta para o filme em 1997 por Zoran Borisavljevic é maravilhosa.
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Salt of Svanetia, directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, is an amazing looking piece of work that chronicles the hardness of life in the post-Revolutionary expanses of the USSR. There are images in this film you will never see anywhere else: of birth, of work, and of death -- all presented bluntly, yet with exquisite artistry .
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