Another View 2018 / Laskovoe bezrazlichie mira / Kazakhstan, France 2018
Due to her father’s debts, Saltanat must exchange her simple life on the Kazakh steppe for the cynical world of the city, where promises and people have zero value. Kuandyk’s attempt to protect his beloved Saltanat in the cutthroat human jungle is as touching as it is naïve. The story of a powerful, pure love – something we judge as rarely attainable.
After her father’s death, Saltanat is forced to sacrifice her virtue in order to pay off the family debt and save her mother from imprisonment. With her devoted admirer and childhood friend at her side, she sets out for the big city where she is to be sold by a kindly uncle to a solvent groom. But a forced moral compromise will not save the situation, and Saltanat and her faithful knight find themselves in ever more desperate situations. An epic story of pure love as the only true value in a world obsessed with pelf and power. As in the Kafka-Lynchesque The Plague at Karatas Village (2016), Adilkhan Yerzhanov has conjured up an original visual world and set in motion a number of cultural references to current issues, this time around the existential character of Camus and the Shakespearean spirit of the tragic.
Kamila Dolotina
100 min / Color, DCP
Director Adilkhan Yerzhanov
/ Screenplay Roelof Minneboo, Adilkhan Yerzhanov
/ Dir. of Photography Aidar Sharip
/ Music Nurassyl Nuridin
/ Editor Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Yedige Nessipbekov
/ Art Director Yermek Utegenov
/ Producer Olga Khlasheva, Serik Abishev, Akan Sataiev, Ernar Kurmashev, Aliya Mendygozhina
/ Production Astana Film Fund, Short brothers
/ Coproduction Arizona Films
/ Cast Dinara Baktybayeva, Kuandyk Dyussembaev
/ Sales Beta Cinema GmbH
Adilkhan Yerzhanov (b. 1982, Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan, USSR). Selected filmography: The Owners (Ukkili kamshat, 2014), The Plague at Karatas Village (Chuma v aule Karatas, 2016)
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Olga Khlasheva
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