From the Heart of the World

ASGHYJN USCHTYKSYN ASABY

Place on the Tricorne
Jermek Schinarbajew
Kazakhstan 1993
82 min
V'01

Two twenty-year-old youths are rolling joints in a small apartment in Almaty. They laugh confidentially as they disappear behind a curtain of white smoke. One of them begins to whisper a bit of poetry he has written. His friend turns on the radio. Sometime later, we find the young poet sleeping with his girlfriend. His mother indulges in moralizing, arguing that you've got to work for a living. «Living takes courage», he retorts before returning to his room to listen to an Italian aria sung by Maria Callas. This film is divided into 22 episodes depicting a summer of our hero's young life, episodes filled with friends, rendezvous, girls, alcohol, and urgent poetry.

Credits
  • Kassym Schakibajew
  • Adil Jessenbulatow
  • Saule Sulejmenowa
  • Julija Suchowa
  • Andrej Melnik
  • Timur Issalijew
Kasachfilm Studio 176 Al Faraby Avenue 480117 Almaty, Kasachstan T 3272 48 22 11 F 3272 48 09 09

Kasachfilm Studio 176 Al Faraby Avenue 480117 Almaty, Kasachstan T 3272 48 22 11 F 3272 48 09 09

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