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Aro Recommended Weeping Camel, The

 

aka: Story of the Weeping Camel, The
Germany / Mongolia 2003, 87 minutes
Dir. Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
In Mongolian with English subtitles
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Documentary / Sociology

Topics: Peasantry.

 

Aroview: A lovingly filmed and touchingly simple excursion into the lives of a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, which blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

Framed around efforts to get a mother camel to suckle its newborn offspring whom it has rejected, possibly because it has a rare white colouration, this also serves as a thoughtful ethnographic document of the transformation of a way of life in the modern world. Eventually the nomads resort to the hope that a traditional musician will be able to magically lull matters back into balance, and two young boys set out across the desert for help... (Note: Amazingly, this is the debut effort of the dir.s who submitted it as their graduation piece for film-school in Germany.)

NZ International Film Festival 2004

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DVD Features

  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • PC interactives
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

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