Using wide, static shots, the cinematography emphasizes the grandeur of the landscape, making the human characters appear small and almost incidental compared to nature [9, 12, 14]. Production & Reception
The story is set in the vast, remote Mongolian steppe and begins with the discovery of a murdered woman’s naked body [4, 12, 15]. Ondog(2019)
The narrative is less about the crime and more about "pregnancy, gestation, birth, and death" [7, 12]. This is punctuated by graphic, realistic scenes of animal husbandry, such as the slaughter of a sheep and the birth of a calf [6, 11, 18]. Using wide, static shots, the cinematography emphasizes the