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Director:

Nikita Mikhalkov

Writers:

Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay)
Rustam Ibragimbekov (story)
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Contact:

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Release Date:

30 October 1992 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

The shepherd Gombo lives with his wife, three children and grandmother in a tent on the Mongolian steppe... more | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations more

User Comments:

One of the best movies of the 90's more (17 total)


Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Close to Eden (Australia) (USA)
Урга (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Territory of Love (International: English title)
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Runtime:

119 min | Russia:106 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Company:

Aria more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

This was the first film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film from Russia. Previous nominees from that country had been submitted from The Soviet Union. It lost to France's Indochine (1992). more

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Zomergasten: (#6.1)" (1993) more


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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
One of the best movies of the 90's, 11 April 2008
10/10
Author: adipocea from Constanta, Romania

What Mikhalkov and his actors did here is unbelievable. I mean, let aside the immense value of this film, I keep wondering how did they do that? How the hack came such an idea to them, to make such a...how should I say, different, crazy, enormous movie ? How did they make those kids play such terrific performances?! Not one of them, but three...You will say that they weren't really uneducated kids from the steppes but educated kids with school that were just acting. Yeah, but how the hell can a kid from the city slip under the skin of a character that lives his entire life in the steppe?! And the performance of Vladimir Gostyukin is nothing less than BRILLIANT. Stands on the same level with the great performances of the great American and British actors, I mean Hanks, Hackman, Hopkins, etc. Oh, it was so easy to screw it up, this movie. A good straight old American movie with this theme would have been like this : the guys are living in the steppe, poetry, here comes the Russian, communication, friendship, then the balance is disturbed, violence come, outside forces that try to ruin the life of the characters, the characters fight, win, the Russian leaves, they say goodbye, they cry, last shot, the Russian appears at the horizon to see them again. Nothing like that in this movie. It is SOOO smart!!!!! Bravo for the Golden Lion, perfectly deserved!

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