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Release Date:
30 October 1992 (USA) morePlot:
The shepherd Gombo lives with his wife, three children and grandmother in a tent on the Mongolian steppe... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
Haunted by Grasses moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Badema | ... | Pagma | |
| Bayaertu | ... | Gombo | |
| Vladimir Gostyukhin | ... | Sergei | |
| Babushka | ... | Grandma | |
| Larisa Kuznetsova | ... | Marina | |
| Jon Bochinski | ... | Stanislas | |
| Yongyan Bao | ... | Bourma | |
| Wurinile | ... | Bouin | |
| Biao Wang | ... | Van Biao | |
| Baoyinhexige | ... | Bayartou | |
| Nikolai Voshchilin | ... | Nikolai | |
| Jinsheng Bao |
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Also Known As:
Урга (Soviet Union: Russian title)Close to Eden (USA)
Territory of Love (International: English title)
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119 min | Russia:106 minColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:PG | Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | Germany:6 (bw) | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | USA:PGFilming Locations:
Hulun Buir Aimag, Inner Mongolia, ChinaMOVIEmeter: 
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The best definition I can give to movies I greatly admire is that they take me someplace I don't expect to go.
It can be a special location. It can be a special moment. It can be a special revelation.
CLOSE TO EDEN, as this movie has been titled in the United States, offers the entire combination. A 1992 Russian nominee for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie opens on the vast expanses of the steppes of Mongolia, where the setting initially is evocative of a certain timelessness. The historical instant cannot be ascertained confidently, even within an error margin of a few centuries. Nor do we know what the movie designs ultimately to tell us.
Such uncertainty begins to give way as a vehicle and visitor enter the scene and are involved in a mishap that results from first sleepiness and then fright. The nature of the vehicle and visitor narrow the reference epoch to an accuracy level of mere decades. From there, the plot leads to a likeable nuclear family of herders, to which a grandmother is attached. We follow their story and soon learn, humorously, when among the vast expanses of time it occurs.
The theme here is subtly...ecological...in three parts. The first part concerns the lifestyle of the family, and its sufficiency. The second part concerns the travel the father undertakes, and an assigned errand he seeks to accomplish in the course of that journey. The third part concerns the conclusion, where the issue of time again intervenes. There is in fact no timelessness, but rather its passage. The narrator in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT is thus "haunted by waters." So, likewise, the ending of CLOSE TO EDEN is haunted by grasses.