The Story Of The Weeping Camel

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A beautiful study of a family of camel herders - and of course their camels, in the Gobi desert. Filled with documentary detail but without narration it works effectively as a compelling film, with the drama coming courtesy of the camels (Bactrian) themselves. An antidote to all hyperactive filmmaking. Excellent.

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Behind the scenes featurette; CD-Rom content - 'King of the Gobi'.

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11 Stills

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Review by David Parkinson on 1st September 2004

This remarkable film came about after Byambasuren Davaa told her Munich Film School colleague Luigi Falorni about her camel-herding grandparents' existence in the Gobi Desert. Fortune smiled on their enterprise, as they arrived in Mongolia with only 10 hours of Super-16 stock. Yet they managed to capture some truly heart-warming footage, as a local musician is summoned to entice Ingen Temee to nurse Botok, the white calf she rejected following a difficult birth. The directors can be forgiven for staging the odd episode to structure this narrative documentary - which owes much to the pioneering approach of Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) - as they have managed to combine ethnographical insight with respectful realism to forge an engrossing true-life drama.

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