Price of Gold

Name: Price of Gold
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: September 16, 2013
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 60

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| Release Date: September 16, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened. Mongolians are breaking with their traditions and have started to plunder their land digging for gold. They are using mercury in their extraction of gold and thereby poisoningMongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened. Mongolians are breaking with their traditions and have started to plunder their land digging for gold. They are using mercury in their extraction of gold and thereby poisoning their environment. A gold rush is changing Mongolia.… Expand

Director: Sven Zellner and Tschingunshaw Borchu

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Aaron Cutler

Sep 17, 2013

The men's faces often vanish as they go underground, threatened with permanent disappearance: the risk of dynamite bursting early, or of rope breaking and leaving them trapped. The filmmakers find those faces again in private interviews above ground, each miner sitting away from the others to discuss how he feels about the job. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 20, 2013

Well-lensed observational doc exposes an obscure economic reality in Mongolia. Read full review

Wes Greene

Sep 14, 2013

While the real-time aesthetic approach sporadically enthralls, it also reveals the narrow worldview that burdens the film. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 15, 2013

A noncommittal, occasionally surreal portrait of hardscrabble lives and omnipresent risk. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 24, 2013

A scrappy portrait of half a dozen renegade gold-diggers. Read full review

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