Close to Eden

Urga is a 1991 film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It is released in North America as Close to Eden. It depicts the friendship between a Russian truck driver and a Mongolian shepherd in Inner Mongolia. The film was an international coproduction between companies based in Russia and France.

Gombo returns home, and along the way stops to eat. He has a strange dream featuring his drunken, horseriding relative as Genghis Khan and his wife as the Khans wife. In the dream both he and Sergei are captured and killed and the TV set is destroyed. Gombo awakes from his dream and arrives home with the TV. He and his family switch between watching a broadcast of the President of the US and a badly sung variety show. Gombos wife, although saddened when learning that he bought no contraceptives, leaves the yurt, inviting him to follow her with a gesture. Gombo follows her out onto the prairie, sticking an urga a long stick with a lasso on the end used to capture animals into the ground in a traditional warning that a couple is being intimate. A voiceover from Gombos fourth son, who was conceived at this time, concludes the film, and a chimney belching smoke stands where Gombo placed his urga.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. ........

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