Feature film
The Five Colours of the Rainbow
Солонгын таван өнгө
Badamsüren Nagnaidorj · 1979
Synopsis
The film traces the life of Sharav, a famous Mongolian painter born in the nineteenth century. As a young monk, he learns to paint the deities of Buddhism and wins the favour of wealthy patrons. His best-known painting, a depiction of the daily life of the Mongols, causes a scandal and precipitates his fall from favour; he then sides with the revolution.
Context
The screenplay is by T. Chimid, the cinematography by J. Amarjargal, and B. Tserensodnom heads the cast; the film runs eighty minutes, in colour and on 35 mm. Its character is inspired by Marzan Sharav, born in 1869, author of portraits of the last Buddhist sovereign of Mongolia and his wife, and of a large painting in the traditional manner, One Day in Mongolia. A filmography from the Free University of Berlin summarises it as the evocation of the life of a famous painter.
Who it is for
A feature film in Mongolian; it helps to know that its hero, a court painter, really existed.
Prizes and reception
Shown in France in 1994, at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, in a retrospective devoted to Mongolian cinema.
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