Mongolia Trilogy ( State of Dogs / City of The Steppes / Poets Of Mongolia ) ( Nohoi oron )

Mongolia Trilogy (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: State of Dogs / City of The Steppes / Poets Of Mongolia
Alternate Title: Nohoi oron
Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
190 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1994 - 1999 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Mongolia ( India, Eastern Asia )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Peter Brosens
Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Written By:
Peter Brosens
Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Actors:
Nyam Dagyrantz ..... Narrator
Banzar Damchaa
Baatar Galsansukh
Purevdavaa Oyungerel
Jamyansuren Oyunstingel

Synopsis:

State of Dogs (1998)
Mongolia's capital city Ulan Bator has a human population of 800,000 and a stray dog population of 120,000. The dog problem is being solved by a man hired by the city to hunt down and shoot dogs. The streets are littered with dead canines. Baasar is a dog destined for exactly this fate, but once dead, he reflects upon his life. He came from the steppes to the city and, alone, sought to attach himself to a young woman. Through Baasar's eyes, we see contemporary Mongolian life and the vein of mysticism and myth that coexists with the everyday.

Poets of Mongolia (1999)
Structured around the transformation of coal into energy, Poets of Mongolia evokes the meaning of poetry in the daily life of ordinary people who are trying to cope with harsh reality in a rapidly changing world. Through poetry a miner praises nature, a heating technician evokes man's destiny, a blind singer expresses her wish to see, and an expatriate finds the strength to survive in a foreign country.

City of the Steppes (1994)
With few words, the film captures fragments of urban and rural life in Mongolia, at a key moment in the fall of the Soviet Union, revealing the paradoxical aspects of that now vanished empire. After seventy years of communism, the city stands like a scar on the steppes and in the minds of the Mongolian people; an encyclopaedia, not only of decaying traces from the past, of old values and new meanings, but also of people, their memories, desires and conflicts.

Belgian Peter Brosens and Mongolian Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh directed this Belgian-Dutch-Finnish-Danish-Mongolian co-production, winner of the Grand Prix at the 1998 Nyon Documentary Festival. A mystical travelogue concerning the life of a stray dog named Bassar, the film combines a Belgian documentary approach with the Mongolian fascination with fables. Some 12,000 stray dogs wander Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. Many of these unwanted strays are killed, and some are used for fertilizer. According to Mongolian belief, dogs are reincarnated as human beings, but when the stray Bassar is killed, he doesn't want to be become human. Looking back on his past life as a dog, Bassar recalls his days on the steppes with nomadic goat-herders, his arrival in the city minus a master, his attachment to a young woman, the changing seasons, and the traditional Mongolian ceremonies, costumes, and songs. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival and the 1998 Toronto Film Festival.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 20 February, 2010.

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