The Wild East - Portrat Af En Storbynomade . The Wild East - Portrait of an Urban Nomad
Verzio FF The streets of Ulan Bator, the coldest capital in the world, are thronged by young men buying cheap and selling dear. Zhenya and Sasha are two of them. They face particularly bleak times when the temperature drops to 45 degrees below zero. Zhenya tries to rustle up enough to keep the wolf...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian English Mongolian |
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Haslund Film
2002
Denmark |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:d7d5c6d4-5e77-4e6e-b7b3-fd18b570d450 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF
The streets of Ulan Bator, the coldest capital in the world, are thronged by young men buying cheap and selling dear. Zhenya and Sasha are two of them. They face particularly bleak times when the temperature drops to 45 degrees below zero. Zhenya tries to rustle up enough to keep the wolf from his tiny family’s door, while he dreams of a better life in a society undergoing a complete transformation after the collapse of communism. Armed with their phones, Zhenya and Sasha take us on their familiar route through Ulan Bator, visiting friends, the temple and the market. Ulan Bator is a kaleidoscopic snapshot where the concrete housing blocks which the Russians built are now surrounded by cities of tents, and the car parks are packed with everything from the hottest new Japanese cars to clapped-out Russian wrecks with cracked windscreens operating as taxis. |
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| Published: | 2002 |