It was just a matter of time before Kazakhstan’s poet Mukagali Makataev (1931-1976) was finally going to get his biopic. Censored, outcasted and disgraced during his lifetime, he became the symbol of Kazakh’s struggle for independence during the Soviet occupation, post-everything. “Poetry loves freedom” is something that gets repeated in Bolat Kalymbetov’s period drama “Mukagali”, a wisdom ascribed to Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian poets whose verses also inspired the eponymous hero of the film.
30 years after the dream of Kazakh freedom became true, actor/ director Kalymbetov turns to the national hero concentrating on the last three years of his life marked by traumatic events. Mukagali (Aslanbek Zhanbalayev) is introduced through a form of trial about something he had done, probably regarding his now famous poem ‘Raimbek! Raimbek!’ that was considered separatist at the time. During that life-changing event, he is still in Moscow where he...
30 years after the dream of Kazakh freedom became true, actor/ director Kalymbetov turns to the national hero concentrating on the last three years of his life marked by traumatic events. Mukagali (Aslanbek Zhanbalayev) is introduced through a form of trial about something he had done, probably regarding his now famous poem ‘Raimbek! Raimbek!’ that was considered separatist at the time. During that life-changing event, he is still in Moscow where he...
- 12/21/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Other winners included German drama ‘Other Cannibals’ and Lithuania’s ‘Runner’.
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
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It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
Scroll down for full list of winners
It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
- 11/28/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
In the past 20 months, we have all learned what an expression “herd immunity” means, for reasons well known. The Covid-19 pandemic has come even to the most remote places of the world, like the village of Karatas in Southern Kazakhstan which serves as the location and the source of inspiration (usually in the form of a metaphor for a hotbed of corruption) for most of the work by Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov. Oddly, this not Yerzhanov’s first “epidemic rodeo”, as some could remember “The Plague in Karatas Village” (2016), but “Herd Immunity” still comes at the right time. Like Yerzhanov’s previous film, “Ulbolsyn”, “Herd Immunity” premiered at Black Nights Film Festival where we had the chance to see it.
Our unlikely hero is Selkeu (Yerzhanov’s regular Daniyar Alshinov), one of the two Karatas sheriffs, the other being an ex-police officer Zhamzhysh (Nurbek Mukushev). Selkeu is from somewhere abroad...
Our unlikely hero is Selkeu (Yerzhanov’s regular Daniyar Alshinov), one of the two Karatas sheriffs, the other being an ex-police officer Zhamzhysh (Nurbek Mukushev). Selkeu is from somewhere abroad...
- 11/27/2021
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
The film is one of two Kazakh titles in competition.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Mukagali, the latest film from Kazakh director Bolat Kalymbetov, which will have its world premiere in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Saturday (November 20).
The film is a biopic of Kazakh poet Mukagali Makataev, who since his death in 1976 has become one of the country’s most celebrated writers.
The film concentrates on three years of his life when he left university after Leonid Brezhnev’s rise to lead the Soviet Union; Makataev opposed communism and worked to preserve the independent Kazakh language.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Mukagali, the latest film from Kazakh director Bolat Kalymbetov, which will have its world premiere in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Saturday (November 20).
The film is a biopic of Kazakh poet Mukagali Makataev, who since his death in 1976 has become one of the country’s most celebrated writers.
The film concentrates on three years of his life when he left university after Leonid Brezhnev’s rise to lead the Soviet Union; Makataev opposed communism and worked to preserve the independent Kazakh language.
- 11/18/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 25th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is about to kick off, and between 12-28 of November the audience will have the oportunity to watch a great number of films from Asia, strewn across festival’s various program sections, including all competition segments. We went through the complete program and counted no more or less than 69 films from the broader Asian region.
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
- 11/10/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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