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Released
2013 · FILM

Salt in the Air

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Runtime
76 min
AdventureDocumentaryHistory

Synopsis

A portrait of rural melancholia, SALT IN THE AIR exhumes the spirit of salt from a 3,500-year-old salt mine in a foggy and hardscrabble Carpathian Mountain village in Ukraine. With rhythmic pacing and intimacy, SALT IN THE AIR connects actual salt with the landscapes and the lives that salt touches. Innovative asthma clinics where patients inhale salt crystals. The enduring legacy of salt pork. And the salt-miners’ struggle to sustain a solemn covenant with what was once the most valuable material on Earth.

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Principal cast & crew: 14

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Edited by Enrico CullenShot by Andrey YakovlevScored by Katie Down

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