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Awakening

Name: Awakening
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957
Duration: 85 min

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1957 · 85 min · Drama

This Mongolian drama traces a people's awakening amid the social transformations of the revolutionary era. A work of early Mongolian cinema.

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This full-length Mongol Kino drama is an enduring domestic classic whose comedy and social observation dramatize the arrival of modern medicine in rural Mongolia.

Runtime: 85 min
Genre: Drama
Mood: thoughtful
Entry: easy entry
Best for: first visit · shorter watch · film history

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Mongolia

This film is stop 3 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Mongolia. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.