The Story of the Weeping Camel

The Story of the Weeping Camel
Ингэн нулимс
Directed byByambasuren Davaa
Luigi Falorni
Written byByambasuren Davaa
Luigi Falorni
Produced byTobias Siebert
StarringJanchiv Ayurzana
Chimed Ohin
CinematographyLuigi Falorni
Edited byAnja Pohl
Music byMarcel Leniz
Marc Riedinger
Choigiw Sangidorj
Production
company
Mongolkina
Distributed byProkino Filmverleih (Germany)
Release dates
  • 6 September 2003 (2003-09-06) (Toronto)
  • 8 January 2004 (2004-01-08) (Germany)
Running time
87 minutes
CountriesGermany
Mongolia
LanguageMongolian
Box office$9,328,652[1]

The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolian: Ингэн нулимс, Ingen nulims, "Tears of the Camel") is a 2003 German docudrama distributed by ThinkFilm. It was released internationally in 2004. The film was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert trying to save the life of a rare white bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) calf after it was rejected by its mother.