Turksib / produktion, Wostok-Kino, Moskau ; autor und Regisseur, Viktor Turin. Dzhim shvantė : solʹ svanetiĭ = Salt for Svanetia / [Goskinprom ; directed by Mikhail Kalatozov].
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
1997
Description:
1 videocassette (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
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. Produced for video by David Shepard, with new music by Zoran Borisavljev. Foreign films (Soviet Union).
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.
Series:
The Soviet avant garde
OCLC:
(OCoLC)39236641
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.