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Title:Turksib [videorecording] / produktion, Wostok-Kino, Moskau ; autor und Regisseur, Viktor Turin. Dzhim shvantė : solʹ svanetiĭ = Salt for Svanetia / [Goskinprom ; directed by Mikhail Kalatozov].
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Published/Created:New York : Kino on Video, c1997.
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Physical Description:1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
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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.
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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.
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Variant and related titles:Dzhim shvantė.
Salt for Svanetia.
- Format:Visual Material
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Credits:Turksib: photography, Yevgeni Slavinsky, Boris Francisson; Salt for Svanetia: photography, M. Kalatozov, S. Geglashvili.
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System details note:VHS.
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Subjects:Turkestano-Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ.
Documentary films.
Silent films--Soviet Union.
Asia, Central--Social conditions.
Svanetia (Georgia)--Social conditions.
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Also listed under:Turin, Victor Aleksandrovich, 1895-1945, film director.
Kalatozov, Mikhail, 1903-1973, film director.
Shepard, David.
Vostok-Kino.
Goskinprom.
Kino International Corporation.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4812020