According to Georgian statistics, most Georgian farmers have only enough to feed their own families. Villagers stoop in the soil to collect the dirty brown ovals that sustain them. The implication is that potatoes are a mainstay of their diets. This primitive economy is founded on the villagers doing the back-breaking, tedious work of harvesting potatoes. "I'm old, alone, I have no one." He turns her down.
She tells him the five kilos of potatoes he's asking is too expensive. A toothless, limping older woman begs him to give her a grater that she covets, either as a present or for one lari, Georgian currency equivalent to around 40 U.S. He tries to sell the goods in exchange for kilos of potatoes, the only asset the villagers have. A heavyset, unshaven entrepreneur makes his living by buying used clothing and other items in Tbilisi, Georgia's biggest city, and then driving his beat-up van to poor villages. THE TRADER is a Sundance Festival prize-winning, 23-minute documentary about poverty in the remote rural regions of the desolate Republic of Georgia countryside.
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