The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Story of the Weeping Camel (, lang, "Tears of the Camel") is a 2003 German docudrama distributed by ThinkFilm. It was released internationally in 2004. The film was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert trying to save the life of a rare white bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) after it was rejected by its mother.
Plot
During Spring, a family of nomadic shepherds assists the births of their camel herd. The last camel to calve this season has a protracted labor that persists for two days. With the assistance and intervention of the family, a rare white calf is born. This is the mother camel's first calving. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, refusing it her milk and failing to establish a care-bond with it.
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author | Byambasuren Davaa Luigi Falorni |
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contentLocation | Mongolia |
director | Byambasuren Davaa Luigi Falorni |
editor | Anja Pohl |
events | culture of Mongolia |
genre | drama |
keywords | aimag cairn chant dhvaja district folk music follow horn lama lullaby morin khuur prayer flag ritual sacred sacred horn sacred place shrine spring stylize summon sympathetic magic torma vajra young boy |
musicBy | Choigiw Sangidorj Marc Riedinger Marcel Leniz |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film European Film Award for Best Documentary International Submission to the Academy Awards |
producer | Tobias Siebert |
productionCompany | Mongolkina |
publisher | Prokino Filmverleih |
theme | docudrama documentary |