Kalėdų eglutės gyvenimas ir mirtis
Life and Death of a Christmas Tree
- Arturas Jevdokimovas
- Lithuania
- 2023
85 min
Georgian, Danish, English, Lithuanian
English
9
Artdoc rating
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If you stop a passerby in a European town and tell them that most of the Christmas trees originate in Georgia, they would be surprised – usually, the label says “Denmark”. We observe the two communities involved in this business. One in Denmark, and the other one in Georgia. We can see many things in common between them and discover also the huge differences in their living conditions, attitudes, and mentality. The seeds of the fir cones are harvested every autumn in Georgia and then sold to the Danish, who grow the seedlings for 7 years to sell them across Europe. These fir trees grow as tall as 60 meters, and to reach the best cones, the pickers have to climb to the very top. Sometimes they lose their balance and fall. Is this all worth the lost lives of cone pickers? Does the multi-billion Christmas tree business redeem something in exchange?
Authors
Film crew
- Director
- Arturas Jevdokimovas
- Screen writer
- Arturas Jevdokimovas, Ramunė Rakauskaitė
- Operator
- Goga Devdariani, Bernardas Andriušis
- Producer
- Ringailė Leščinskienė
- Composer
- Gintaras Sodeika
- Sound producer
- Nicolas Vetterli
MOVIE ABOUT
- Theme
- Lifestyle
- Country
- Lithuania
- Film studio
- AnaBen
- Festivals
- Artdocfest 2024
- Languages
- Georgian, Danish, English, Lithuanian
- Subtitles
- English
Tags
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