Jan 05, 1969
21 min
Full-HD

Georgian Ancient Songs (1969)

Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.

Category

Documentary Music History

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Georgia-Film

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