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1930s · Georgian SSR · documentary

Salt for Svaneti (1930)

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov · 55 min

Year
1930
Running time
55 min
Countries
Georgian SSR
Companies
Georgian Film Studio
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A picture of the film's subject
The film’s subject — not a still from the film. Photo: Mikhail Kalatozov (film director)Shalva Gegelashvili (cinematographer), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

About the film

Salt for Svanetia is a 1930 Soviet 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.

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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