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Date
March 18, 2010
- Time 7 PM
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price NG Member: $8; General Public: $10
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Photograph courtesy the filmmaker
Presented as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Captial
Germany | 2009 | 91 minutes | Mandarin and Mongolian with English subtitles
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
A beloved violin belonging to Urna’s grandmother was destroyed in the tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. An ancient song of the Mongols, "The Two Horses of Genghis Khan," was engraved on the violin's neck. Now Urna, driven by her promise to her deceased grandmother, treks throughout Mongolia to locate the song’s missing verses, and to have the violin rebuilt. Yet, no one she encounters along the way seems to know the old tune. This unique film melodically blends realism against the gorgeous landscapes of Mongolia to create an artfully composed documentary in narrative style.
Director Davaa’s first feature film The Story of the Weeping Camel was a 2005 Best Documentary Oscar-nomination. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she began to work as a moderator and director's assistant with Mongolian National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study documentary film and communication sciences at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her films through 2006 tell stories embedded in the traditional life of the nomads in Mongolia. The subjects of her movies also serve as amateur actors, playing mostly themselves, which positions her work somewhere between documentary and fiction.
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