Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

(USSR, Mongolia, and France, 1991)

Nikita Mikhalkov's film is set in the vast rolling steppes of inner Mongolia. Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd, and his family lead a simple, traditional existence until their lives are interrupted by Sergei, a Soviet-Russian truck driver. Sergei alters the family's traditional perspective when he takes Gombo on a revealing and hilarious trek into the city. Sergei, in turn, comes to realize that both he and the society he represents have been relegated to the cultural sidelines.

Monday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m.

DeBartolo 349