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Shackles

Special Programs in Focus

Aging · Crime/Violence · Social Criticism · Children

Country / RegionMongolia
Production Year1991
Running Time75min
Format35mm
ColorB&W

Program Note

A little boy named Toguldur leaves home with a hatred for his mother who has worked as a prostitute since his father′s death. But he gets kidnapped and is put to use in robberies by a gangster group. One day he meets a kind old man who takes him to a Lama temple to rehabilitate him. Moved by the old man, Toguldur tries to escape from the gangster world, but his effort are in vain and he meets a miserable end.

Director

Nansalyn Uranchimeg

Mongolian cinema was nearly paralyzed due to censorship during the 1980’s when the People’s Revolutionary Party controlled filmmaking, but has expanded, and rising directors have demonstrated new styles and material: Appearing in the early 90’s, Bayanjagane Baatar, J.Binderand and Nansalyn Uranchimeg are representative. Nansalyn Uranchimeg made her debut with a realist film showing her deep concern with social problems. Born in Ulan Bator in 1956, She studied filmmaking in Moscow and began work as a screenwriter when she returned to Mongolia. She wrote the screenplay for her debut feature Shackles about children and elderly people alienated in the rapidly changing and chaotic Mongolian society of the early 1990’s. (Kim Ji-Seok)

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