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Note: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 The UCLA Film and Television Archive is having a special Sneak Preview screening:

Wednesday, June 2 @ 7:30PM (Free Admission, Open to the Public)

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL
(Die Geschichte vom Weinenden Kamel)
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (2003, Germany)

Inspired by Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH, an international group of
Film students at the Munich Film School decided to bring to the screen a world and a culture that predate modernity while persisting in the modern age. Their collaborators are a nomadic family in southern Mongolia who recreate the drama of their life, and that of their camels. And high drama it is, when the difficult birth of a rare white camel causes the mother to reject the odd specimen. Even the camera seems to be asking: Will the mare come around, or will her baby die for want of love? Eventually the parents send their boys to town - a picaresque adventure in itself - to bring back something so beautiful, so haunting as to make a grown camel cry.

-adapted from a note written by Judy Bloch for the San Francisco
International Film Festival

Presented in Mongolian and Russian dialogue with English subtitles.
35mm, 93 min.

This event takes place at the James Bridges Theater at the UCLA
campus.
For more information, visit the UCLA Film and Television Archive
Website at: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu