A Mongolian Tale
1995, NR, 103 min.
Directed by Zie Fei, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Naren Hua, Tengger, Dalarsurong.

Set in Mongolia, the movie tells the story of two children raised by a nurturing surrogate grandmother. A boy and a girl, everyone assumes they will grow up and marry but then the boy leaves for school and the girl marrries someone else. Twelve years later the boy returns for a visit, but his grandmother has died and the girl has a new family of her own. Life is not as simple as it once was.

This article appears in January 10 • 2003.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.