Director: Nariman Turebayev
Script: Nariman Turebayev
Cinematographer: Boris Troshev
Editor: Andrey Vlaznev
Sound: Olivier Dandre
Art Director: Sabit Kurmanbekov
Cast: Erjan Bekmuratov, Oleg Kerimov, Lyazat Dautova, Mira Abdulina, Serik Nurebekov
Production:
Duo Films
154 rue Oberkampf Maison n°10
75011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.48.07.59.19
Fax: 0033 1.48.07.08.67
Mail: [email protected]
Corproduction:
Mkr Kazakh film
dom 40 kv 20
Kazakhstan
Tel: 7.333.226.33.14
Fax: 7.327.249.11.51
Year: 2003
35 mm, Colour, 85 min
OV Russian with French Subtitles
Unreleased
Beck and Max share a small apartment in Almaty. Wearing a suit and tie, they make a living by selling gadgets illegally on the streets to naive people. They earn little, but this is enough for them to live one day at a time. These loosers, these dropouts have dreams. Beck dreams of falling passionately in love, while more prosaic Max wants to leave Almaty and join his grand-mother in Germany. As time goes, their hope becomes weaker till the day Beck meets a young woman in red and madly falls in love with her. Max has kept saving money for his trip which represents all his hope for future. Will the two young men finally be happy ?
Nariman Turebayev does not use the same cynicism as in his previous short film Antiromantika, but succeeds to creates in small strokes an atmosphere full of poetry, humour and emotion expressed in a natural way. Beck and Max are attaching characters, and the film is a sensitive and warm comedy. While portraying them in their daily life, the director gives us an insight of the reality of a big city today in Kazhakstan, where the lack of work results in ingenuity for survival.
