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Turksib
Title
Turksib [videorecording] / produktion, Wostok-Kino, Moskau ; autor und Regisseur, Viktor Turin. Dzhim shvantė : solʹ svanetiĭ = Salt for Svanetia / [Goskinprom ; directed by Mikhail Kalatozov].
Published
New York : Kino on Video, c1997.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Notes
Produced for video by David Shepard, with new music by Zoran Borisavljev.
Video release of the silent documentary films Turksib, originally released in the USSR in 1929 and Salt for Svanetia, released in the USSR in 1930.
Turksib: photography, Yevgeni Slavinsky, Boris Francisson; Salt for Svanetia: photography, M. Kalatozov, S. Geglashvili.
Summary
Turksib (57 min.) depicts the harsh struggle for subsistence of the people of Turkestan and the Soviet engineering feat of connecting this region with the grain producing area of Siberia. Salt for Svanetia (53 min.) portrays life in the isolated Caucasus mountain village of Ushkul, made more difficult by the scarcity of salt and the religious superstitions of the people. Communist construction of the first road into the area brings great beneficial change.
Variant and related titles
Dzhim shvantė.
Salt for Svanetia.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Undetermined
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Turksib: photography, Yevgeni Slavinsky, Boris Francisson; Salt for Svanetia: photography, M. Kalatozov, S. Geglashvili.
System details note
VHS.
Subjects
Also listed under
Vostok-Kino.
Goskinprom.
Kino International Corporation.
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