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At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary Ramstedt’s memoirs are heard in the modern day setting, where tradition is replaced with hunger for money, and deserts give way to cities.
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- Family movie night
- Kids
- Teens
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- You want something to laugh at
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 67GoodWatch 71
IMDb6.7
Running time
1 h 26 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −10 min on the typical 96
typical 9686Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 39 countries, rent or buy in 34 more
+29Released
2018
January 30, 2018
8 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Finnish
Original language
Also spoken
JapaneseChineseEnglishMongolianKoreanMade in
Finland
Directing · 2
- Martti Kaartinen Director, Writer
- Niklas Kullström Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Sound · 3
- Rasmus Hedlund Music
- Pietu Korhonen Sound Designer, Sound Mixer
- Heikki Kossi Foley Artist
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