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The Story of the Weeping Camel

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Story of the Weeping Camel (Ингэн нулимс, "Ingen Nulems", Tears of the Camel) is a 2003 international co-production between Germany and Mongolia. It was co-directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni.An extended family of nomadic shepherds lives in the waste of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Besides the sheep, their other material asset is their herd of camels, which they use as transportation and beasts of burden. The season comes for the mare camels to deliver their young. The last mare delivers a colt which is startlingly white-colored. Whether it be the strange color of her baby, or the exceptionally difficult delivery—apparently it took the mare two days to deliver the colt—the mare shows no affection to the colt and, most importantly, will not let it nurse. This is a problem, because without mother's milk the colt will starve to death, and the loss of a camel would be a severe dent to the family's assets.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Meanwhile, while the family has to figure out how to deal with the mother and the colt, they still have to deal with all the challenges of nomadic life in Central Asia, like sandstorms, bathing in buckets, and herding a flock of sheep.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Right off the bat, as the film opens with an old man starting a fire and then looking at the camera to tell a story about why the camel doesn't have antlers.
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Based on a True Story: Although the filmmakers admitted to crafting some scenes of the family's domestic life, they claimed the central conflict of the mare delivering a colt and then failing to bond with it was filmed as it happened.
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