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Tributes - Darezhan Omirbayev
In this virtually wordless story, a young man from a small Kazakh village migrates to the big city. Initially sure of himself, he meets a young woman that he feels he could easily fall in love with. Later, during a showing of Woyzeck, he sees her again quite accidentally and realizes that he has already given his heart to her. As his relationship with the girl blossoms, in his sleeping dreams, he imagines he has returned to his home village and he is alone on a carnival ride while his mother watches him on.
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Cast:
Kairat Mahmetov, Indira Jeksembaeva, Talgat Asetov, Baljan Bisembekova -
Original Title:
Kairat -
Country:
Kazakhstan -
Year:
1992 - 72' Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Darezhan Omirbayev
Director and screenwriter, he was born in Kazakhstan, 1958, and was acclaimed by Jean-Luc Godard as "one of the most astonishing filmmakers working today", Darezhan Omirbayev studied Applied Mathematics in Kazakhstan, later embracing cinema when moving to Russia in 1983. After a brief foray into film criticism, he directed Kairat, his first feature-film, in 1991, earning the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Endowed with an outstanding sensibility to detail, Omirbayev is able to portray, in every social microcosm that composes his work, the monotony of everyday life in Kazakhstan and the little nothings that define human existence.
