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zahhman
IMDb member since August 2006
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Urga (1991)
Fantastic... You'll laugh, you'll cry... It'll change your life!
21 August 2006 - 2 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
A fantastic movie. There is no 'Docu-Drama' category is there...? Documentary, the life of the Mongols on the shrinking steppes of Mongolia(claimed by China, backed up against Russia), and all that that entails... Then the dramatic, scripted story introduced. Sweetly funny, and lots of hilarious tidbits involved.
I recommend this movie heartily, and if you don't like it, I'll eat a Yak patty! M'Kay?
The cinematography is lovely, lush imagery, and quite the eyefull. The story is great, comical and valid. The clash between modernization and 'the old ways' is nicely dealt with.
It is subtitled, as it's a mixture of Mongol, Mandarin, and Russian.
Get it!
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