Fiction

SVET-AKE

Light Thief, The
Aktan Arym Kubat
Kyrgyzstan, DEU, FRA, NL 2010
80 min
V'10

They call him “Svet-ake” (“Mr. Light”). The electrician is responsible for bringing more than just light to the people around him. Like moths, everybody is drawn to his kindness: those with short circuits in their electricity, and those with short circuits in their marriage, those who have taken all the power in the city, and those who have given up the will to live. He helps everyone and is everywhere. He doesn’t even shy from breaking the law, rewinding an old and lonely pensioner’s electricity meter so that she doesn’t owe the State, but rather the State owes her. Whereas the economic power lies in the hands of greed-driven people, Svet-ake only has two dreams: to have a son someday and to provide people with cheaper energy through wind power.

Credits
  • Aktan Arym Kubat - Svet-ake
  • Taalaikan Abazova - Bermet
  • Askat Sulaimanov - Bekzat
  • Asan Amanov - Esen
  • Stanbek Toichubaev - Mansur
  • Aktan Arym Kubat
  • Talip Ibraimov
  • Hassan Kydyraliyev
  • Bakyt Niyazaliev
  • Petar Markovic
  • Andre Matthias
  • Talgat Asyrankulov
  • Inara Abdieva
Pallas Film, A.S.A.P. Films, Volya Films, Oy Art, ZDF/Arte

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35 mm
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