Mongolian Ping Pong
- Huricha Bilike: Bilike
- Geliban: Ergoutan
- Badema: Bilikes mother
- Yidenin Naribu: Qiaosang, Bilikes father
- Dawa Dawa
- Wurina: Wurina
- Jin Laowu: Supplier Siriguleng
Mongolian Ping Pong (Chinese绿草 地, pinyin Lǜ Cǎo Dì ) is a Chinese film from 2005, which is the traditional way of life in the Mongolian steppe in Mongolian language. Directing the film formed as a high school project on the subject of table tennis led Ning Hao, who also wrote the screenplay.
The director is the Chinese cinema of the so-called "7 Generation " attributed to a system-critical association of filmmakers who deliberately challenge with their films, the state power and not shy away from the conflict with the pervasive censorship. The motive of measurement is the everyday ordinary people, but without him this print too critical.
Action
The Mongolian boy Bilike place one day in the Mongolian steppe a table tennis ball, an object that he has never seen before. Together with his friends he sets out on a search for the origin and function of the ball. His grandmother told him about a mystical luminous pearl, later he hears on TV that there is a ping pong ball, the "national ball ".
To return the ball to the nation, he sets out with his two friends on the way to Beijing, it creates but only to the steppe at the edge of the Gobi desert, where he is found by the police and then brought home. But the ball also offers conflict fabric for the friendship of the Mongolian children, because everyone wants to have the ball for himself. Finally, the fathers find a solution and cut the ball - in the steppe everything is shared fraternal.
During his enrollment in the city recognizes Bilike in the sports hall, the noise bouncing ping pong balls, and he looks incredulous athletes at the ball game.
Reviews
The reviews were mostly positive, was praised especially the stunning landscapes of the Mongolian steppe and the narrative style. Schnitt.de writes, " Ning Hao [ created ] a touching and loving film which already excited because of its wonderful original idea. Stringent following the child's logic developed the film over and over again new amusing and heartbreaking twists, mainly owes its emotional intensity of the lack of an arrogant - belächelnden storytelling. "
Some critics also liked the humor of the director, the one expression, for example, by allusions about the difference of life in the steppe and the modern city. This leads however to the fact that the " wide angle photographed Mongolian steppe with her charms no longer seems quite so enticing in their admittedly unsurpassable beauty as in the films of Byambasuren Davaa. "
The lexicon of the International film was that the film with pursuing " sense of small moments of humor [ ... ] the quiet life of the protagonists ", " tradition and modern civilization casually collide " leave, " in places, but something forced in his effort ', being " to give poetic and fabulous features the simple everyday life".
Awards
2005 Ning Hao was awarded at the International Film Festival Shanghai with the Asian New Talent Award. His film was also nominated at the Chicago International Film Festival for the Golden Hugo and on the Marrakech International Film Festival for the Golden Star.