Scenes from a village 60 - The voice of the village
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The voice of the village in 4 parts.
Villagers from the small Croatian village of Gornje Bukovlje talk about the changes in the village over the past 40 years.
I) Selling cattle to buy tractors
II) Growing food and raising livestock
III) Growing hemp and weaving
IV) Taking the cattle to pasture and singing
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Really nice, wonderful pollution free, natural life of villagers. Good bye.
Beautifully done.
truly lovely countryside.
Brings back memories of my grandma and grandpa in Europe.
So glad this film resonated with you. There are many films in this series that might also bring back Good memories for you. Thanks for watching.
Un très bel endroit calme qui fait penser à l ancien temps
Such a beautiful film, reminds me about my didika and bakica in Croatia and the life that once was ❤
Thank you for your comment. This way of life is, sadly, rapidly being lost but I am glad, and not surprised, that it reminded you of your grandparents life back in the mother country.
This is the same in Romania. But I would say it is more widespread in Romania
I agree, especially in southern and eastern Europe. Sadly, there is no more ploughing with horses in this part of the world. Thanks for watching.
nice place nice vid superb!!!!dream place😍
Bahhh,asri sekali
Itu indah tapi kerja keras!
the way farmers here work like farmers in my country
The simple yet difficult, and happy life ...
did I say the most important thing? People would stop and drop whatever they were doing or wake up at any time of the night & rush to help you for anything. Free. Nothing expected in return.
beautiful Andrew. thank you
Qual o seu idioma?
JÓ NAPOT!
The first sentence you can hear in this video is Hungarian.
Sorry, it’s Croatian not Hungarian.
Contry name
'Seek, and you shall find.'
I am sure it was a life full of happy neighbors all working and singing together and romance was also remembered. Many happy people died from those times and the young and pretty are now old thinking how it was and fast their life went. It is sad, but life continues and we cry and then we die and then others may have remembered and then there is NO MORE forever......Carl M -----You may use my feelings and publish what I said as your own feelings and life and past memories of long forgotten..............God Bless.
Thanks for watching and commenting, Carl, I appreciate it.
very close to nature, its the purest village life in seen in recent past. everything abt this village is beautiful and earthy.
Indeed, but since this film was made even more of the village has been lost and passed into history. Thanks for watching.
@@andrewnorris2 thank you for your reply. That's sad to know that things are changing so rapidly and the old village is slowly fading away into the past.
The old values are lost and the new values are killing people! There is the toxic fast food and the drugs...Everything is at the fingers tip but people are unhappy, and they don' t have what these village people had. So they over dose and thousands die every year...
There's no tomorrow..
You make fabulous film, one think you done best that is - you aid the people information voice as background, it is perfect 👌 people always show the long conversation face in thair video it's So.... Boring, i really like your video 👌
You should have aid some scene about what they people take meal in thair daily life and how they eat thair food 🍲, it will be so attractive and yummy, delicious video.
Very true. We lost a lot of valuable things with development of modern civilisation. Love from India.
We don’t sing together anymore, it got lost once recordings, radio and computers came along, and once people didn’t hang out together outside working. I hope we bring it back someday.
You are right. I recorded quite a number of village songs but these were all sung by the older villagers, and most of them have died now. Thanks for watching
Good air, sunshine, farm animals, agricultural work... ¡a fine life!
Hello
wow green and clean village. no garbage at all
Enjoyed the bits about agriculture... selling horse to buy a tractor and ending up with no manure for fertility and organic matter etc Also the tractor ending up being harder work unless your land was flat, contained no holes and little stones.
Thanks, Andrew, for watching and commenting.
Bravo, Andrew for integrating voices, beautiful images, deftly varied angles and shots into such a moving and compelling whole. You have honored the details of a way of life: the plowed field, the shorn sheep, the soaking hemp, the animal husbandry. I am grateful for these four years of insight into the village. I feel the melancholy of irrevocable change and have been touched and fascinated by your village neighbors and friends. With warmth and respect, I thank you.
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Very healthy food and life back then. All this chemical mess is causing many problems for our bodies.
I love this Village very much. May long this Village!
These Croats seem to be blessed, given their past of conflicts a few years ago. Living in harmony with nature and animals, this is real life
Thanks, Martin, you are right it is real life but it is a hard life but there is something satisfying about coming home tired after being in the fields all day
Tradução: Esses croatas parecem ser abençoados, dado seu passado de conflitos há alguns anos atrás. Viver em harmonia com a natureza e os animais, esta é a vida real
thanks andrew for all your efforts .I have enjoyed your village and meeting the people in it.I would never had experienced it other wise.I wish you and all you love and hold dear nothing but the best in the future.
thank you walter.
One could live like this, with nature, indefinitely. Perfect balance. My grandparents lived off the land too. I always helped during Summer school vacations. That's how I learned to appreciate hard work and its rewards.
Hard work never killed anyone.
@@elisabethdakak878 😇
A great film and a great historical document for the future Andrew. I remember people like this in my mother's country Ireland. People were not so different years ago, their quality of life was better because they relied on each other.
Not only relied on each other but there was an institution here during socialism called a 'zadruga' where families held land and livestock in common. While the zadruga officially no longer exists land here is still tied up in this manner. Thanks for watching this film, Michael, I'm very pleased with it and it was intended to be my 'final' word on the village but events intervened and I made another 18 films in the series! But these stopped at number 78, The last bee keeper in the village, after one of my dearest friends died and so his was the final film in that series.
@@andrewnorris2 sorry to hear about the death of your friend. I remember the village where my grandmother lived she was called out to help birth babies and even to lay out the dead and wash them. The circle of life was an everyday thing to people like her. They had hard lives but valued people more.
I will work my way through your films. Thanks again they are very well made and a pleasure to watch.
@@michaelwhite8031 Yes, Drago's loss was a great blow for me. You are right, death is just one aspect of village life. It took me a while to realise why and how people here are somewhat stoical when people die, precisely for the reasons you gave. I appreciate you wanting to go through my catalogue. Thanks, Michael
Gosh, such hard working people. Home grown at it's finest, and there's always time for a little music and laughter. I love the 'old way of life'. Beautiful sheep; The one dancing up the road did make me laugh :) Beautiful country, amazing people with such skills
There is, indeed, something satisfying to come home at the end of the day feeling physically tired from being outside in nature, with the animals of just working in the garden. Thanks for watching this one, it is one of my favourites.
6 years later and your video is still being appreciated and enjoyed.
I know. Somehow TH-cam reoommended it and now it has thousands of views. Its still a film I'm still moved by. Thanks for watching and commenting.
No cattle ..no manure !..Mind you pigs were never kept well in many places in those days it seems..still are not...The rest is brilliant...the women talking about the crops..the shearing...embroidery/ weaving ..vintage knowledge beautifully filmed Andrew..excellent.
Was the white pellets artificial fertilizer on the ground when they were planting potatoes?
REminds me of my grandparents farm back in POland.
I don't doubt that. Farming methods have been honed over many centuries of trial and error and the sharing of best practices. So pleased that this film brought back some good memories for you.
"OUT WITH A BANG" is what I thought..Wonderful. Similar to what I imagine England was like about 1900 but without the technology that Andrew has used. Thank you Andrew does not seem sufficient but anyway Thank you.
Honestly rural France looked like this in the 1970 as well, no need to go further back.
..simple but healthier life then..no hassles..no complications..people are friendly..neighbors shared whatever food they cook...
Beautiful countryside. Very hard working and honest people. I’m sure they know their neighbors and keep in touch. And they help each other. My biggest respect.
Thank you for your comment. Yes, it is hard work but honest work and it is always good to be close to nature.
I loved this. You really felt like you knew these people. Thank you.
I really appreciate this video it's very humbling to watch, also really good to learn how life was before the mechanical engineering took over ,when life was holsom
Bence . Dunyanin en guzel insalari ve dogasi . Romanyadir. Sizleri ve ulkenizi cok seviyorum. ❤❤💙💜💛🧡
Nekada su ljudi morali da žive sa malo troškova. Nije sipao gorivo u konja ili bika već ga je hranio travom. Bilo je više fizičkog rada. Danas je mnogo skuplje živeti.
Thanks for this video. Remind me of my times in Vodena draga. Times that never will come back. I am still greatful that i could live this life every summer.
Indeed, the village is changing beyond recognition. I'm pleased that you still have a connection with the old ways.
Język słowiański. Rozumiem bez tłumacza. Pozdrawiam Chorwatów.
Ono što razumeš jeste jezik jednog naroda
Thank you Andrew for pointing me in the direction of this amazing little documentary. What an amazing place and history. I believe this is where true happiness is found.
It was a mixed blessing, I imagine. Certainly, people were much closer, they had to be when they shared various jobs, but the work was much harder. However, people grew up doing hard work so that was simply their life. The younger generation today have no idea what hard work is, and I suspect they are less happy!
@@andrewnorris2 yes l totally agree.
It will all come and go....and come again. Modern day life whas doomed to fail the moment it started.
I grew up in a village just like this, and this morals and ways of free living were taught to me, now I wonder why the need to separate this way of living from technological advancements, the ones that are actually advancements, not facebook or skyscrapers, people will never enjoy life in a drawer, I'm talking about hydroponics and aquaponics, permaculture, solar and wind, biodigesters, electric tools and computers, why not aim for a better way of life, not for wealth and fame but for actual living, among everything that was not thought of our mind, but what actually is out there? We've lost something, and we miss it, all of us, but few ask the question, what is it that we lost? We got lost in this game of fantasy and delusion, sending our kids to war so they can die for our security, sending our old to live alone, taking care only of our own comfort, without regard to the rest of the world, world you feel like you are not part of, you see it as an enemy, that tries to kill you, to put you down, so you invent masters, and gods so you can have security, but this illusion goes on for millennia, no one got the security, or comfort that was promised, when will you let it go? I would have one question for all the billionaires that destroyed it for the rest of us: Are you happy? Fundamentally happy? I guess not, you would not have to chase all that anymore, your fight would stop in it's tracks and find the meaning of life, find the beauty and not the superficial, find love, not lust. Don't worry, your dreams will come true, we will put an end to it all, we are getting closer and closer to a man made Apocalypse, if that is the only way to kill your ego's, than by all means go ahead, unfortunately you will then realize, there was a better way!
Какой фильм хороший ! Спасибо кто снимал 👍👍Привет из России!
Thank you. I miss the old ways too, having experienced some here in Oregon and later, in Montana.
Thank you for watching. I am glad my video brought back some memories for you. It was certainly hard work but it was honest work and to come home tired at the end of the day gives one a sense of satisfaction of a job well done.
@@andrewnorris2 i really love ur videos too. I was remember my old days. No electricity no gadgets. My father is a farmer also.,
@@ramonamallo1991 You are very kind. A farmer's life is an honest one. We need our farmers!
@@andrewnorris2 I agree! My father planted rice and I help also. Untill now still really existed
my parents homeland organic food love it thank you for the video
If civilisation collapsed it would be up to the elderly here to teach the young how to do this the old way.
In an ideal world, Marie. Even if that were to happen fairly soon the young would have no idea how to grow food and sustain the population.
Country living much better than city living. ✌
KRAJ - indeed! A vivid and moving testament to the riches of the old, labour-intensive village life. Beautifully realized and the whole four-part finale is of course epic in dimension. It is the same kind of story everywhere. People are lured into consumer oriented modernity in a double whammy: seduced into avoiding the hard work of the centuries old traditions without realizing the deeper cost as they fall for notions of progress and inevitably as the land does not sustain the materialist dream sooner or later are drawn to the cities. Then what? Only a generation later they look back to the countryside for what? - a second-home, a weekend retreat. With little motive else but to do a little light gardening and put their feet up. What else as they have lost both the knowledge and the facility to work with the land.
A glorious and meaningful final episode Andrew. And I salute your own intensive, meticulous, creative achievement over the whole Sixty! What touched me deeply here, in a moment, was expressed simply thus - 'It's nice when you have something to offer people!' And you have done that too my dear friend! Bravo!
KRAJ you have expressed your thoughts with a commanding ability of the English language and put a lot of feeling and expression into your summery of the changes in every culture as new technology and methods change life as known to you in the generations gone before, it was a very moving to read even for one not to familiar with the village life you described above.
good video. the atmosphere of village life is felt through taking precise and detailed angles, and musical instruments that support the atmosphere. thank you for presenting an interesting spectacle and add insight
Thanks for a kind and generous comment, I'm so pleased you enjoyed this film. If you are interested in village life and customs there are oer 100 films on this channel.
I'm not sure how many times I've watched this video. I love this🌻🌾🌷❤❤❤
It is one of my favourites. Also the one previous, number 59 'The Sound of the Village.' Thanks for watching again....and again!
Yes,when you watch the video it’s romantic,it’s beautiful but for me, for us that lived this life believe me it was hard.This land takes lots and gives back very little.Those day’s, no running water,no fridge, not to much food, no shower,no indoor toilet no paper 🧻.....And NO many other things that make our life’s easier. I lived there 60s,70s,80s....Not to many nice memories!
You are right the land is still hard and there is still no mains water yet. People's experiences are coloured by many things, good and bad, the voices you hear are not mine. For some it was a good time, despite the hard work, for others, such as yourself, not so good. Thanks for watching and commenting.
the early 1950 my village in roma texas was like your, but in ten years it changed top cars etc.
I know what you mean. Things happen so quickly and the changes can have a great impact on the pattern of the village. I hope in your village that there are still some vestiges from the 50s that remain for you to connect with.
this was how it used to be in my village in India. now things changed faster and faster so life getting in stuck in technology... it's all about money now no more culture and values.
Just put this on my list of places I wish to vist. Listing my home in So. Calif. on the market in two weeks. I want to simplify my life and I would enjoy spending time in a village like this. European cultures must be respected and preserved. Just a better way of life.
before girls would do embroidery...today their fingers would be busy texting...what a waste of time and skill all girls should know
Texting and witchcraft 😈 which boy shall they twirl on their finger!
This was a beautiful video of a way of life that unfortunately has been lost.
Sadly, yes, it is being lost and the younger generation know little of how their grandparents lived. Thanks for watching.
Not really. In western Europe I guess, but in Balkans it still is this way. Especially Romania and Moldova. But in the future who knows...
great sir...tnx a lot make us known about ground clarity of well developed today 'country .....state...nice..
Zdravo nașe comsai sirbianski 👍👋
Is'very good life still Iike so mach the sârbi people is' very good humans' (dobri liudi)
congrats' 👍Dovigenia 👋👋💕🌷🏇🏇🏇🐎👍
Good collection. I am from India and want to live there! Thanks!
Truly Enjoying watching countryside of Croatia, its just phenomenal.
This is so great!!!
We must preserve and respect this!
Thanks, Emir, please share with anyone you think might be interested.
andrewnorris2 We must meet!! what about wolfs and bears!
IN NATURE!
Yes, wolves and bears would be interesting to film especially if they came to Bukovlje. Maybe you would be interested to see this film, 'The Wolfman -The Diary of Paul Balenovic (BBC documentary)' There are some stunning views of the Velebit mountains.
Best
Andrew
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When I will retired from work i will go home to my village. For sure i have an enough money for capital and I will re alived my village from raising cattles like cows,carabao,native pigs,chickens,fishes,vegetables and fruits. I will invite everybody to come at my farm and have a party and to see what i have done that they have almost forgotten because their brain was already dig on their Smartphones fb and games. I want to eat organic,live longer and make a lot of money of it. I ll show them how to enjoy real life is.
Чудесный ролик,показывающий и природу и быт румынских крестьян ,но хотелось бы,чтобы субтиры были на румынском языке.Vielen Danke scho"n!
Спасибо, но эта страна - Хорватия, а не Румыния.
Amazing livelihood and culture!
Bravo Andrew. A most interesting glimpse into the old country. Are you planning on showing this in Art Theaters or Film Festivals?
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Аль Факиро
true life
โอโหดินดีมาก มีปุ๋ยธรรมชาติอยู่มี ลำคลองน้ำมีไหม ลำคลองน้ำไหล บ่อน้ำบาดาลใต้ดิน มีน้ำ เจาะ 5 นิ้วเลย ความกว้างของบ่อน้ำ อยากได้ดินแบบนั้นมากเลย ปลูกต้นไม้ผล ทำสวนด้วยดีจัง มีร่มเหงาเยอะๆเลย Hi
This was the best time to do something for family now we are doing work for govt. or big companies,
It is still possible to put politics behind you and find a small piece of the planet to live in harmony with nature, as much as one can. Thanks for watching.
Have you visited the Museum of Rural Life in Reading?
I haven't visited that museum. I'd love to go but I might see many of the exhibits ironically. What is a living tradition in Croatia is now confined to a museum. Having said that much of what you see in this video is now history. The elderly have died off and the young have no interest to work that land, sadly! Good to see you here. Thanks for watching.
We cannot stop theses crafts disappearing but we can preserve their memories. Which you have expertly done.@@andrewnorris2
Nice
God's BLESSINGS Nature's BLESSINGS 😇
Overgrown is good! Have you not got bees 🐝 🐝 over there?
Really very beautiful Andrew hats off to u really enjoyed
Country life is actually pretty good
I have come late to this beautiful video. I found it very moving. Health , simple lives. Enjoying hard work and not wanting for anything else until 'progress' speeded up
I was really satisfied with this film, to let the friends I had made simply speak for themselves and from them I learnt so much to enable me to get closer to nature and the land. As one lady said to me when refering to working in the field, 'That was my faculty.' There is a lot to be said for practical work! Thanks for watching this one, Linda, this film means a lot to me.
I have stay in Croatian less than a year but never seen this, I am sorry if it is not Russia. Thanks
This was the last man in the whole region where we are to use horses for ploughing, I am not surprised that you never saw such a scene. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful place from London
What an amazing way of life,Life as it should be what amazing people God bless you all.
Lovely film Andrew. The Croatian government should try and promote and protect these old customs and the sense of community that you have recorded. Here in the UK with the breakdown of communities, faith, marriages, and old customs, we experience high levels of mental and physical ill health. Suicide rates amongst the young, and male population, have never been so high and millions of elderly people suffer from loneliness and a sense of lack of purpose. Addictions are at epidemic levels and causing considerable distress, crime and deaths. Even though the UK government currently spend over £134 billion on the NHS and local authorise invest over £500 million in health and social care each year it does not meet demand, or stem the increase in illnesses and death rates. The ‘old ways’ had many benefits and should not all be discarded 🤭
Thanks, Mike, this film was to be a summing up of the village and how it had changed, much to the detriment of everyone. There is so much truth in what you write. Millions spent on the NHS yet people rely on it too much without taking responsibility for their own behaviour and what they choose to eat. I filmed a 100th birthday some years ago and that woman had been to a doctors only three times in her life! Sadly, despite the films, giving lectures, film shows and TV appearances no one seems interested in this village culture. But they will, one day, once they have lost it all and it becomes something for people to be nostalgic about. Thanks for watching
Beautiful country. Keep the old spirit alive. Greetings from Romania.
Thank you so much.
très beau documentaire , avec de beaux personnages qui nous montrent la dureté de la vie !!!!
Awesome,hands on with the animals n community.keeping busy with life
Eso si es una vida y un lugar maravilloso.
peaceful and happy life
cows would love this ground
Amazing I cannot explain this nature way of ploughing when was child my father and uncle use this method but they died but we was use bulls those are beautiful memories of my life bundles of thanks for showing this
Thank you,Naila!
They have though soil there, looks like clay or lime, I'm a sand and moore farmer so I don't know.
Yes, the soil is pretty heavy to work sometimes. It is stick when wet and somewhat hard when it dried
ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸುಂದರವಾದ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಸರ್ amazing and beautiful video sir
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and trouble to write. All the best to you, Andrew
good yarn. canada the same. well done
Great film
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Fortalesentu pueblo todo lo que hace a tu identidad No pagues alquiler !
Nice video
Very professionally shot, edited and scored.
Beautiful