{"id":468,"date":"2026-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:08:45","slug":"oles-perform-musical-accompaniment-at-screening-of-salt-for-svenetsia-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2026\/04\/29\/oles-perform-musical-accompaniment-at-screening-of-salt-for-svenetsia-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"Oles Perform Musical Accompaniment at Screening of Salt for Svenetsia (1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As part of the Muslim in Russian Literature<\/a> film festival, Emily Kleiber (’26), Shalizeh Takloobighash (’29), Zlata Krutova (’29), Hayden Williams, and Michael Oaks provided live musical accompaniment to Mikhail Kalatozov’s silent film masterpiece, Salt for Svenetsia (1930).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The film portrays the Svan people living in the mountains of Soviet Georgia, where they have been cut off from the outside world pretty much year round due to harsh winters and dangerous peaks of the mountains. Among many things they lack, salt is the most important. Without salt, their livestock can die and their survival can be at risk. When the Soviet engineers arrive to build a road to connect Svanetia to the lower land, everything changes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You can learn more about the film festival here<\/a>. The RLAS department plans to organize further silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment on an annual basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the Muslim in Russian Literature film festival, Emily Kleiber (’26), Shalizeh Takloobighash (’29), Zlata Krutova (’29), Hayden Williams, and Michael Oaks provided live musical accompaniment to Mikhail Kalatozov’s silent film masterpiece, Salt for Svenetsia (1930). The film portrays the Svan people living in the mountains of Soviet Georgia, where they have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[9,33,52,27,53,51],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-work","tag-content-course","tag-event","tag-silent-film","tag-spring-2026","tag-student-performance","tag-the-muslim-in-russian-film"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}