Today I have seen a marvelous film in which we can feel the death of nature and the noiseless love in its original form. The film remains about a totally different world available to us in contrast to the modern excitements (bullets, speed, explosions, fast food etc.). The story is so simply and genuine – in an isolated Mongolian grassland place a nomad family spends summer season. One of the little girls in this family makes friendship with a cute puppy she finds in a cave; her father wants her to leave dog where she found it - little girl struggles to keep dog. It is exciting to see a mode of life so totally different to our own and portrayed so honestly and without any moral squint at all. Its beauty lies in its simple storyline and seemingly unobstructed participants. The way the each character in this film interact with each other, and especially the way the children express love and affection to each other was amazing. The cast in The Cave of the Yellow Dog are actually a real family of amateur actors. However, what they achieved through this film can’t be achieved by any professional actors in this world.
The director of this movie is Byambasuren Davaa, a Mongolian filmmaker living in Germany. You may familiar with her earlier work The Story of the Weeping Camel (also an excellent work). Through her films she portrays the life of nomads in Mongolia. The subjects of her movies also serve as amateur actors, playing mostly themselves, which positions her work somewhere between documentary and fiction.
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