Close to Eden (1991) on Netflix
PG19911h 59m
Gombo, a shepherd in Inner Mongolia, lives in a yurt with his wife, children and mother. Chinese policy forbids a fourth child. A Russian truck driver, Sergei, lands in a river nearby.
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Plot summary
On the steppes of Inner Mongolia, the shepherd Gombo shares a yurt with his wife, their three children and his mother. Chinese population policy bars the family from a fourth child. Sergei, a Russian truck driver, falls asleep at the wheel and pulls over after a close call; he wanders off on foot, and when he hurries back his truck has run into the river. Gombo finds him and takes him to the yurt, where the family slaughters and cooks a sheep while their guest watches, appalled. Sergei comes to like the quiet of the countryside. Gombo rides to the nearest town for birth control, and Sergei goes with him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Close to Eden (1991)
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- Urga is credited with sparking Czech writer Petra Hůlová's interest in Mongolia: she went on to study there and spend an exchange year in Ulan Bator, which led to her first novel, published in English as All This Belongs to Me.
