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The film is inspired by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. A student of the Philosophy Faculty suffers from a lack of money and loneliness. One day, the owner of the store and one usual shopper become the student‘s crime victims, spurred on by a post-Soviet order, characterized by growing inequality, institutional corruption and a ruthless ethic. The sense of guilt grows in the student's mind.
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Cast:
Ermek Ahmetov, Erkebulan Almanov, Amangeldy Aytaly -
Original Title:
Student -
Country:
Kazakhstan -
Year:
2012 - 90' 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.
