Khadak Germany / Belgium / The Netherlands
2006, 105min.
Prod.: Heino Deckert, Script/Dir.: Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth, Dir. of Phot.: Rimvydas Leipus, Music: Altan Urag, Dominique Lawalree, Michel Schopping, Christian Fennesz, J. S. Bach, Prod. Design: Agi Ariunsaichen Dawaachu, Sound: Pepijn Aben, Edit: Nico Leunen.
Cast: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Damchaa Banzar, Tserendarizav Dashnyam, Dugarsuren Dagvadorj, Uuriintuya Enkhtaivan, Otgontogos Namsrai, Gerelsukh Otgon, Bat-Erdene Damdinsuren, Byambasuren Tumurbaatar, Byambatsogt Dashnyam.
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues.
Awards
Venice IFF, 2006 (Luigi De Laurentiis Award).
| Brosens, Peter Peter Brosens
Graduated Geography and Cultural Anthropology. He worked as an expert in urban development in Ecuador. He researched epidemic forms of suicide and made the award-winning film El Camino Del Tempo. In 1993-1999 he directed and produced Mongolia Trilogy – consisting of documentaries of City Of The Steppes, State of Dogs and Poets of Mongolia awarded 23 times.
Filmography
El Camino del tempo (1992), City of Steppes (1993), State of Dogs (1998), Poets of Mongolia (1999), Khadak (2006).
Woodworth, Jessica Hope Jessica Hope Woodworth
Graduated Princeton in Italian Literature in 1971. In 1994 worked in Paris as a researcher for French TV, was a stringer and documentary researcher in Hong Kong and Beijing for European networks and magazines. She received a Masters in Documentary Film from Stanford University in 1999 and shot her first documentary, Urga Song, in Mongolia. She directed the co-produced documentary The Virgin Diaries in Morocco in 2001.
Brosens & Woodworth founded a Belgian independent production company Bo Films. Their second feature Fragments Of Grace is in developing process.
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