Director: Darezhan Omirbaev
Script: Darezhan Omirbaev
Cinematographer: Aoubakir Souleiev
Cast: Kairat Makhmedov, Indira Geksembaeva
Production: Kazakhfilm Studio
Distribution:
Cinema Public Films
84 rue du président Wilson
92300 Levallois Perret
France
Teel: 0033 1.41.27.01.44
Fax: 0033 1.42.70.06.65
Mail: [email protected]
www.cinemapublicfilms.com
Year: 1991
35 mm, B & W, 72 min
OV Kazakh with French Subtitles
Silver Leopard - Locarno 1992
Silver Montgolfière - 3 Continents Film Festival Nantes 1992
Critics' Award - Strasbourg 1993
Kaïrat, un garçon d’une vingtaine d’années,
A boy, Kairat, is travelling on a train from the steppe to the city, riding on a bus, going to a movie and brushing bare arms with his date, wandering through a train yard. One day, he meets Indira, a young female student, who works as a train controller during summer time…
Kaïrat is an incredible funny movie, which shows us a lesser-known country of Central Asia, where young people wear blue jeans, listen to rock music, live all together in collective flats and are all looking for...their soul sister.
Following Kardiogramma, this new movie shows how important Omirbaev's cinema is nowadays. Darezhan Omirbaev may well have been inspired by Bresson and Hitchcock, but he has indeed become the leader of a new Kazakh wave.
