Director: Ermek Chinarbaev
Script: Nikita Zhelkibaev
Cineamtographer: Sergey Kosmanev
Editing: Kulan Dusenbaeva
Sound: Gulsara Mukataeva
Music: Wen Zi
Cast: Adil Yesenbulatov, Saulye Suleymenova, Yulia Sukhova, Andrei Melnik, Kasim Zhakibayev
Production: Kazkhfilm
Year: 1993
Beta SP, Colour, 82 min, OV with French Subtitles
With kind suppot of Kazakhfilm
Two twenty-year-old young men are rolling joints in a small apartment in Almaty, softly leaning towards each other. They are laughing with great complicity until one of them whispers a poem he wrote… A little later, the young poet is sleeping with a girl-friend. His mother wakes him up and moralizes: One needs to work in life! "Life needs courage" he answers before going back to his room to listen an Italian opera sang by Maria Callas played on an old tape recorder….
"Some critics from Almaty pretended it was a film about today’s youth in Kazakhstan. I am absolutely convinced they are wrong. It is a film about the life of a man. It does not matter whether the story is contemporary or not, whether you are as young as the hero or on the contrary old: your life has the same meaning for you, life is a treasure…Harmony is in life itself. " Ermek Chinarbaev
