Close to Eden

Year: 1991

Runtime: 119 mins

Language: Russian

Drama

A farmer and his wife raise three children on a remote Inner Mongolian farm, but strict Chinese population‑control policies forbid any more. The husband journeys to the nearest town for birth‑control supplies and rescues a Russian truck driver stranded in a lake. He brings the stranger back, where the initially uneasy Russian soon becomes enchanted by the peaceful countryside and decides to stay, a choice that signals significant changes for the family and their community.

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