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Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
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Cast
Directed By
Sergei Dvortsevoy |
Director |
Writing Credits
Sergei Dvortsevoy |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Sergei Dvortsevoy |
Producer |
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Edited By
Sergei Dvortsevoy |
Editor |
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Sound
Visual Effects
Camera
Sergei Dvortsevoy |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Gennadiy Popov |
Production Design |
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Other Crew
Boris Trochev |
Cinematography |
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Marat Tokhtabakiyev |
Cinematography |
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