The Svans: A Georgian Community Living in Another Time | SLICE | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Nestled in a picturesque valley between Abkhazia and South Ossetia lie the 40 mountain villages of Svaneti, homeland of the Svans. Towering mountains reaching heights of 5000 meters surround this remote region of Georgia. Accessing the Georgian mountains is challenging, and time appears to stand still here.
The Svans distinguish themselves from other Georgians with their strong adherence to tradition. They fiercely preserve their medieval culture, maintaining their own language and a unique cult of icons. Despite modern advancements, the Svans continue to farm their meager land without the use of machinery, and ancient rituals remain a vital part of their daily lives.
A new era has dawned for the Svans, marked by change and adaptation. Yet, they are determined not to forsake their cherished values and age-old traditions.
Documentary: The Svans - Between Tradition and Modern World
Direction: Andreas Lünser
Production: Spiegel TV
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Someone please tell them civilization is overrated. Keep those kids safe up there.
Yes cults have a great track record with the kiddies .
I was just thinking the opposite
@@spaghettiqueen230 I was being sarcastic.
@@spaghettiqueen230 why? They have clean food, clean water, clean air and a society of loved ones. Why mess with perfection?
@@chaznonya4This is not perfection - no immediate medical care, perhaps an unhealthy diet due to limited variety, no dental care, poor washing facilities, no sanitary wear for women during menstruation. Those five things alone would help me decide where I would rather live. The little lads scoliosis will not improve by correct posture, that is the only thing his father can be offered; he will need treatment to balance the muscles of his back and hard manual labour, which he is doing already, will only make matters worse.
I was here in Ushguli last week. There are actually quite a few tourists who pass through all summer. Lots of small restaurants, cafes, and guesthouses around to serve them. And there's a big cell tower that keeps everyone connected to the world year round.
So it's not quite as remote as this doc makes out. Many of the surrounding smaller villages are more remote but not as picturesque for videos like this. In any case, it still feels like a place from the past, still feels quite special.
Pretty sure this documentary is fairly old. Many of the developments shown just starting here are quite well established now.
I think its wonderful that the outside world has not corrupted this beautiful town. The love respect ,the hard work shows how they love their lives and families and their past ancestors.
@@lynettemacdonald3957 The camera is there now it will corrupt.
The world is a big place, with many different cultures, this one is a surviving one that in their traditions lives on! Thank you for sharing this wonder! 🙏
Amazing that people still live this way. Such strong people. If more people had to live this way, basic, purposeful, prayerful, faithful, the world would be a better place. God bless them all.
Most of the world still lives pretty much like this. Get out and travel a little and pay attention to what u see..
When I first started watching, I thought where do they get their wood?? Makes me think of Easter Island - they better start planting trees!
My thought too.
That requires work. These men can't fix a gate or tie a rope properly. They are misbehaving. Planting a tree - they'd have the woman do that.
This is a very good way to live and I hope they don't change the old ways ,such a beautiful place
@@chantelbijeaux6541 al gore approval !
What beautiful people they are. The region, the traditions and values are also beautiful. May God grant them both preservation and prosperity.
अगर इंडिया या पाकिस्तान में कोई संप्रदाय इसी तरह से रहता है तो तुम गोरे लोग उसे घृणित दृष्टि से देखते हो,अब क्योंकि ये लोग गोरे हैं तो तुम इनकी तारीफ़ में कसीदे पढ़ रही हो।
@@Arbaaz0694 YOU are the racist. You are also Christophobic.
Thank you for a beautiful documentary on the Svans, I have visited Tibilisi, Gerogia, in 2017, and I just fell in love with the hospitality of these warm, friendly Georgians. Their traditions, their customs, and their religious beliefs in Orthodox Christianity is very humbling. I wish the Georgians peace, progress and love. IF I could visit Georgia, I would do it over and over again.
Thank you so much for this video & a peek into the lives of Svans...I had heard of them, but didn't know anything much about their lifestyles & such...I so appreciate learning about them & would so love to see more videos from these families...Blessings to all these families & to you for bringing these videos to share here.
Proper wholesome food , living with nature … kudos to them for living the real life
Indeed!
No preservatives in 🧀...oh krafty !
Didn't you see the part where they explained they DONT have a proper diet which leads to malnutrition and thyroid disease?!! No, they're l8ving with reduced health and life expectancy.
Lacking iodine and causing health problems. The wife want's out and wants to take the kids to the city.
@@petethundabox5067 Hang out with al gore ?
what amazing lives!. lived in these isolated Georgian mountains. Thank you for creating this documentary for the public! God bless you!
how proud noble and humble can you get ? respect.
I'm surprised they don't dry the cow dung to supplement the wood from the rapidly disappearing trees, as well as plant replacement trees.
@@patricianairn7474 Global warming.
Solar panels to charge generators, saws, drills, etc., while in mountains
They still use scythes
@@mansize6622more trees would grow if it were getting warmer.
@@christinehede7578 Hot sun burns saplings before they grow into trees.
In many ways this is a wonderful way of life but also harsh and hard.
Liked & subscribed (there's nothing simple about leading a simple life; it probably isn't easy at all, yet I feel intensely happy after having watched this documentary and the svans' deeply rooted MEANING of their apparently simple lives: It makes everyone wish everybody else in the world hope for a better future -amen).
Thank you for this video. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's radically obsessed with ultra-in-depth Medieval Georgian warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. Keep up with the amazing work! Love, Jacques
Seems like a tough but happy and fulfilling life. I am rather envious.
I bet many of us city dwellers feel just like you do.
I hope they are planting more trees!!😮
Slice eres lo maximo, gracias por el documental
What an amazing video. I wish I visit the savns.
I want to live there!
Me too did my dna on ancestry and though i was born in jamaica it seems a diatant relative shares links to the caucuses. Tjough the dna results change from time to time
Thank YOU❤. So INTERESTING
#enthralling
The narrator does not sound fake!! Well done.
Amazing! ❤
I really needed this after everything that’s going on nowadays. So much hate in the world, crime, wars, decline of morals and people struggling for survival.
There are communities like these around the world who survive by working hard and being happy with what they have.
I’m all for progress and an optimistic future for mankind and I truly couldn’t survive in a place like that but kudos for these strong people and I hope that some relief is coming to them soon which fortunately or unfortunately will also mean that their way of life will change!
Its only me or you also had the impression that the wife called Nani is really unhappy w her life in this village? she mentions many times she wants to take the kids and go out of that place for a better life 😢
I think she's anxious that there's no way out to medical care. That would be really scary. My son had to be hospitalized at 2 and even though he had great care, I was terrified. Can't imagine what these mothers go through.
When we city dwellers see places like Svanetti, we often idealize them, enchanted by their stark contrast to our daily urban surroundings. However, it's important to remember that the Svans face their own struggles. While their lifestyle may appear simple, it is anything but easy !
Love this culture, community and hard work. more rewarding lifestyle than a western grind into oblivion. "in winter when all the work is done I sit by the fire and eat and drink." love it.
I wonder if the women still have to take care of all the animals, children, cooking, baking, laundry & household while he sits by the fire eating & drinking.
@@charleswebster2550yep, that's how it's usually done 😢
@@Windigo-OAK Typical.
@@faze4hit You love everything.
Wow. Very wholesome and impressive.
Maybe the could redesign their Heating, by making a Rocket Mass Heater, they use Less wood and the heat lasts longer
Proud and amazing people!
A hard but worthy life !
Lovely ...nuts about it !!
The drinking goes everywhere .😂
What a beautiful place 😍 I would love to visit there one day.
Big up for Svaneti and Georgia 🇬🇪🇬🇪 !! Any Georgians in here ??
Such beautiful people
This colour is so beautiful on you!
We're (the main antagonists if you will of environmental damage) all wondering how to combat climate change. Then there's these people who understand not only the relationship with the earth but the value and proper use of resources
They deforested the entire area.
@@BrentColfleshsome but that is all.
Self sufficient.
You can walk a bit farther for wood.
But it's a much better life than most.
People are corrupt and greedy.
Keeping up with the jones isn't easy.
Go explain how much rent is in Atlanta, phoenix or new York new jersey hell anywhere.
They could live for years off of 1 months rent.
Amazingly Magnificent! Thank you for sharing this video. To live free & in harmony with nature. A little Green Technology will assist in lighting, heating, cooking, power grid for basic white goods to enhance their way of life & preserve their limited trees. I will write it on my bucket list to visit such a beautiful & with majestic mountains in that place a great contrast with its 4 seasons compared to our place. May The Almighty God Bless these humble, peaceful, hard working & industrious people. I can relate to the hard work & reliance of these people when I see our people of Kambaramba villages in Keram, Sepik River and our people in Nubia in Madang Province. Greetings from Papua New Guinea.
Admirable people.
Ilahoow wadada xaqa ah ku hanuuni 🌺🤲🌹
Good now I know what to bring as gifts when visiting flavored schnapps and clothing sweet treats and firewood, and vitamins
Cheers
This is an example of a people that survive the trial and joys of living in our world, no different from all people's even in civilized/more technology oriented locales. How would the more technology people in America make do, if they had to exist, in this environment. I think many would not make it, they are too selfish/self-centered. They think they are entitled.
Good people and honest people
Interesting.
The School is beautiful
I would love to own a stove like hers. My grandmother in Germany had an electric stove and a wood stove. She would cook on that wood stove more than on the electric one. The only time she would cook on the electric was to start the boiling of water for the potatoes and making home made noodles.
Love to have a stove ?
These folk's are to be admired & respected🤔ppl of western society go about daily affairs unaware that their capitalism system is at war with their humanity at war theirs humanism
Electricity is often cut off. Ha! Seems like my village.
Thanks for being the real deal. I have I subbed from all channels using AI voice because the mispronunciation of so many words drove me nuts when watching. Appreciate your professionalism.
He is a yank so he naturally mispronounces so many words.
I love how the little boy has a Von Dutch hat!!! ♡♡♡
And their water in a Coke bottle? The world has reached them already.
You love everything.
I love their culture
Their ancestors are probably saying “Why are you still here living how we lived when life can be easier?”
It looks nice...from this side of the camera.
How long do you think you can stand living in Svaneti? 🤔🏔️
So not to use all the tress one cut tree 4-5 tress should be planted
❤❤
Would love to have seen some winter too. Helicopter?
These people are so innocent. Completely untouched by the world.
SLICE, do you guys have job/career opportunities? All these different ways of life really intrigue me. I'm most interested in traveling and discovering/immersing in different cultures and more simple ways of life. I do well connecting with people. Would appreciate your response/advice.
What is the name of the Narrator?
Is there a way you can send the community some $? Like a go fund me or something?
I find their lifestyle fascinating.
Their life style is call Tradition and value.
No LGBTQ+ here......
They will very much regret letting the outside world in.
This saddened me to be honest.
The German architect airport tower inspired by.......is hideous, a scar on the landscape that perfectly illustrates the story that these people will now have to endure.
Could not some help be found from the Facebook appeals for the hospital? I would gladly give.
Iodised salt would help with the thyroid issues in the area.
Are these people "traditional?" Or simply impoverished?
I respect the people and their chosen way of life, but speakiing personally I would absolutely NOT want to live it. I love the convenience of modern life, the ability to learn new things, to change and to adapt. Traditional ways of doing things are romanticized by those who don't have to live it. Women and girls work very hard, bear lots of children and dont have much say in anything. The children are beautiful, and their teacher admits they are bright, but with not much propects they will just be going back to that "wheel-less" ox drawn sled existence. You can hear almost a plaintive cry from one mother hoping for a better life for her children. The young lady going away to study law, may or may not go back, but if she does change will come faster. Educated women change things.
Cult of the dead and men in charge. Roads closed for snow. No wonder the woman wants to get her kids out before winter hits.
Unless you’re filming a Svanic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers I’d give you a ride Sister
@@katanaki3059 Get her a jab and welfare .
The fence gate has fallen apart and the sled is hanging on by old worn rope. After many generations - this is what they have!! The men are not behaving.
20:05 There's the alphabets and other unknown writing.
Interesting.
There’s a lot of haters out there y’all just mind your business and everybody’s like everybody else I think their culture has survived for a long time and when it’s done it’s done but damn people have to be so vicious
Saang bahagi ng mundo kaya ito?
Click “more” it will tell you.
Georgia (USSR)
Georgia daw
someone show them a wheel
What I don't understand is if they r so remote and on their own how do they have modern clothes , shoes , etc
Is this an AI narrator?
Sounds like it, terrible
No
If u have to ask, u shouldn’t worry about it 😂
Do they plant trees?
do you?
What the capitalists hate the most
Not all of us. I firmly believe in live and let live.
Who do you love ?
I guess we know what Nadia's father thinks of her 1st husband, and the financial security of the new one.
Australia/ A great shame, that with tourist money, this wonderful culture and peoples will change.
How fortunate to be cut of from the rest of the world!
33:50 the alphabet looks exactly like the Myanmar alphabet
this is copied as I watched this months ago
These people remind me of the people I worked with for 3 years in Afghanistan the people of Badakhshan. Mountain people. Everyone has their role in the village. Every time I bought a goat, every single Afghan could kill it and part it out within only 15 minutes or so. I’d be eating my first kebab within the hour. They squeezed out the fecal matter out the intestines and begged me to let them sell it at the market. What the hell am I gonna do with it? Their true and genuine “tashakor!” (Thank you) always made me laugh
Boy they can sure drink hard
Tell them to stay right there..?.?
The narrator sounds like a robo-voice. Is the most popular robovoice cloned from your narrator?
They could live for years off the cost of rent 1 month in an American city
AI generated voice
GOD BLESS GEORGIA GOD BLESS UKRAINE
@@walterperry4565 Why ?
@@mansize6622 russia invaded both these countries
@@walterperry4565 God bless Russians too or no ?
@@mansize6622 hell no!!!!
@@walterperry4565 You have a different god than the one that forgives all.
When did you start using AI narration? It sounds fake, and you picked the most widely used one. Are prof narrators really that cost prohibitive?
It might be the other way around, this might be the real voice from which the annoing popular robovoice is based upon, although recent progress in AI make fake and real hardly distinguisheble.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a human voice!
WOW.
My apologies.
It’s an awful American narrator. People around the world dislike Americans talking.
@@SLICEDocumentary You should be ashamed of yourself LYING like this... "Human voice" MY A$$!!!!
im guessing their ancestors are a bit annoyed as they are trying to reach their next level in spirit but have these needy folks grounding them ..............lol . Just a guess ??
the tiktok ai voice really
Maybe the Camera operator could bring them a Saw or a rented Chainsaw for a day or two....axes...rediculous.
Has nobody seriously seen the abuse from the Svan guy?
These people are Short sighted, they are traveling farther and farther
Away for wood, they need to be planting trees too
Некому построить на речке маленькую ГЕС ??? ...
Orthodoxy or Death, as we say in Russia. ☦️☦️☦️
Will be a shame when the tourism money greed kicks in along with more modern amenities, it’ll wipe it out overall. Town may be there but traditional ways will fade.
Hope that the modern world stays away. It's not what she thinks.
What a depressing place.
Good Christian people, honest,humble and hard working but don’t cross them. They will take care of business!😊