Close to Eden

Close to Eden

  • Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Writer: Rustam Ibragimbekov,Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Countries of origin: France, Soviet Union
  • Language: Mongolian, Russian, Mandarin
  • Release date: October 30, 1992
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Territory of Love
  • Urga is a feature film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and starring Bayartu , Badema , and Vladimir Gaust Eugene, which premiered on September 1, 1991 at the 48th Venice International Film Festival in Italy   .
    The film tells the story of Sergei, a truck driver, and the family of Gomba, a herdsman from the grasslands, and the story of Gomba's persuasion from his wife, Pagma, to go to the city to buy condoms   .

    Details

    • Release date October 30, 1992
    • Filming locations Hulun Buir Aimag, Inner Mongolia, China
    • Production companies Camera One, Hachette Première, UGC Images

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $377,832

    Gross worldwide

    $377,832

    Movie reviews

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    • By Aron 2022-07-31 13:45:15

      Urga: Iron Horse Glacier Comes to Dream

      Where the prairie once had a kulun, now a chimney is erected... 

      I especially liked the part where Sergey picked up the small badge and shouted at people in the ballroom: "Soul, this is our soul, two dollars apiece." He, who threw the badge out, laughed while laughing at the fact that others couldn't remember his great-grandfather's name, but he was stunned and disappointed when he found out that he couldn't remember his own great-grandfather's name under the rhetorical...

    • By Antone 2022-04-20 09:02:34

      Please, don't use ideology as a big hat for such a good movie

      There are two sensitive topics in the film: China's family planning and minority policies. Coupled with the popular yearning for nature and primitive life, this film, which actually has no ideological connotations, can easily be explained formally by viewers through a certain ideology favored by them, thus losing its original meaning. aesthetic value.

      Most people think that this is a film that returns to simplicity, accusing modern civilization of eroding traditional living habits and...

    • By Gertrude 2022-04-20 09:02:34

      If you yearn for the steppe life, if you love the literature of the former Soviet Union, I recommend this movie to you

      If you don't have a little steppe and Russian complex, I think, you may be difficult to be attracted by this film. Because it does not have the beautiful tones of the legendary grassland green, the story seems to take place in the seasons of spring, summer or autumn and winter, and the picture presents a gray-green color. This gray-green color can only be understood by those who truly love grasslands. And one of the protagonists, a middle-aged Russian man, is neither handsome nor attractive....

    • By Rosetta 2022-04-20 09:02:34

      many bars

      During the class, the teacher asked to watch it. With the questions that the teacher asked to think about in his hand, watching the movie, I couldn’t understand Mongolian, and had to rely on English subtitles. I was a little rebellious about those questions in my heart, and watching the movie was very nostalgic. The movie wanted to express a lot of meaning, and I also thought about a lot of things in my heart. My

      father's voice is very magnetic, and he tells the story of Genghis Khan...

    • By Olen 2022-04-20 09:02:34

      gorgeous loss

      People who live in history will have limitations in seeing the world, and "The Horse Pole" may be too. The year 1991 was a year of great shock to the Soviet Union and the world. There are too many confusions and contradictions in the movie, both from the movie and from the director.
      Maybe the director found Mongolia because it used to be a huge and powerful empire, but will today's Mongolia be Russia's tomorrow? But for modernization or the development of the times, no one can stop it....

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    • By Wilbert 2023-09-17 22:56:09

      Unable to accept the bizarre viewpoints in it, Vasily, the remnant of the subjugated country, met the inexplicable Great Mongolian retroist Subutai, and Vasily sang the Soviet battle songs with tears in his eyes. In Subutai's dream, he lost the TV representing modern civilization. I didn't buy condoms, which made my wife very upset. I'll go, actually I've always disliked Mikhalkov's eccentric...

    • By Janice 2023-09-16 12:28:19

      The ancient Mongolian long tone is gradually dissipating in modern...

    • By Okey 2023-08-22 04:49:06

      Granny is popping bubbles, they turn on their new TV and see the old man singing Peking Opera and Gorbachev on the White House...

    • By Jocelyn 2023-07-11 15:19:46

      The top ten of the year, Bayatu rode through the corridor of the hotel, the little girl was reciting the October Revolution, and there was a feeling of magical realism. In the new era, the old living habits seem out of place, but some people stick to it. It is a sense of pride and pride from the heart. It is great to meet the Mongolian army on a bicycle. Whether it's Mongolia or Russia, it's so embarrassing, TV, movies, reality, break the boundaries, when the play is covered with many layers...

    • By Casey 2023-05-28 15:01:37

      To put it simply, it is a story about a Mongolian who tried to buy condoms in the city, but softened the complex nostalgia, clash of civilizations, and so on. Gomba gently killed a sheep, this episode was stunned for a long time, and this plot also revealed their primitive and profound spirit. The camera reminded of Fellini's, slowly panning, the amount of information is sufficient, very interesting. Thinking of "The Horse Thief", Tibet has a mysterious and repressive religion, and Mongolia has...

    Movie plot

    Sergey, a Russian who ran business on the Sino-Soviet border, not only lost his way, but his truck was also stuck in a mud pit. He climbed up the hill in a daze for rescue, but saw the body of the Mongolian buried in the sky, and ran into the Mongolian herdsman Gongba while running in amazement. The simple and enthusiastic Gomba invited Sergey to his home to kill sheep and serve wine as a treat, and helped him solve the problem of the...
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