Focusing on the Turquoise Mountain
★ 5 · 1978 · 84m · Adventure · Comedy
It tells about the collaboration of Mongolian-Czech geologists who are discovering treasure deposits in Mongolia, and shows the events that happen to them in a humorous tone.
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