Close to Eden

Close to Eden

1991 ""
Close to Eden
Close to Eden

Close to Eden

7.6 | 1h59m | en | Drama

A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake. The farmer takes the man back to his farm, and after initially being appalled, the Russian becomes enchanted with the peaceful life of the countryside and decides to stay. But his presence presages big changes for the peasants.

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7.6 | 1h59m | en | Drama | More Info
Released: October. 30,1992 | Released Producted By: Hachette Première , UGC Country: Soviet Union Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake. The farmer takes the man back to his farm, and after initially being appalled, the Russian becomes enchanted with the peaceful life of the countryside and decides to stay. But his presence presages big changes for the peasants.

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Cast

Badema , Vladimir Gostyukhin , Wang Jianguo

Director

Valerii Anisimov

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Hachette Première , UGC

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G K A Mongolian herdsman and his wife live a simple yet idyllic life which is interrupted when he rescues a Russian lorry-driver who has crashed into a river and brings him home to his family.Urga is a gentle, almost dreamy film that contrasts consumerism and the stress of modern living with a less cluttered way of life that scarcely exists in the developed world. Many subsequent films (some of them also set in Mongolia) have taken their cues from the themes here. Urga won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and Best European Film at the European Film Awards. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and for a Golden Globe in the same category.
ajrichmang Nikita Mihalkov is a god when it comes to film. The guy below me is probably a not very smart, Hollywood films are 20% good and the rest is garbage just like your comment. I have seen but a few good American films the rest is the same old crap. I would like to say that American films have no life its always the same. This film has an amazing plot with its twist and turns make it a master piece. I am just trying to get my point across but the policy won't let me have anything smalled than 10 lines. I would love to me Nikita Mihalkov and just let him know that he is such a great director. So please when you see this really try to learn to speak and understand the Russian language so you can actually grasp what the movies is all about and really suck in the meaning of it.
Claudian A men, his wife, some children and the grandmother live in a little house on the Mongolian outback, faraway from anything. When a truck driver gets stuck with his truck nearby, a cultural exchanging process begins to take place and, after all, they do learn a few things from each other...From the very beginning until the very end, however, nothing interesting happens. No action, no nothing. Unbelievable...It is long, boring, tedious and uninteresting story. As a matter of fact this movie is the very definition of "boring". Certainly the WORSE movie I ever saw. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME.As a matter of fact, I can hardly believe that so many people voted around a seven/eight for this movie. It IS a ZERO star. Trust-me!May be I am missing something.... or a lot of imagination to find this movie "interesting" or something like that... Honest.
johan-16 This movie shows us a world without any borders, laws. Just a bunch of people who live in a superb nature, which fills the wide moviescreen in its endless beauty. It reminds us, how far we are away from nature, from our roots of our ancesters. That's why I think this movie appeals the people from all over the world. And especially those who like the widescreen movies from John Huston to Visconti. Only for the superb shots you can see it over and over again. It's, without any doubt a timeless beaty