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User Rating:
6.7/10   214 votes
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Writers:
Jean-Claude Carrière (writer)
Regis Ghezelbash (original idea)
Contact:
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Release Date:
13 December 2007 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Love sometimes lies at the end of the world
Plot:
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
Full slate for 2007 Toronto Film Festival
 (From ioncinema. 6 September 2007)

User Comments:
Harrison Ford meets Cold Mountain meets the Asian Steppes more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Philippe Torreton ... Charles
Ayanat Ksenbai ... Ulzhan
David Bennent ... Shakuni
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Zhaina Abdieva ... Kazakh woman
Vladimir Aryskin ... Painter
Tanyrbergen Berdongarov ... Patron

Marek Brodzki ... Manager
Zhaksybek Kurmanbekov ... Men Shaman
Olga Landina ... Olga
Shamshagui Mendiyarova ... Woman Shaman
Maximilien Muller ... Eric
Andrei Passagenikov ... Photographer
Turakhan Sadykova ... Grand-mother
Marhabat Sarkitpueva ... Fashion show commentator
Serguey Urimtchev ... Geologist
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ulzhan (France)
Ulzhan - Das vergessene Licht (Germany)
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Runtime:
105 min
Language:
French | Kazakh | Russian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Certification:
Canada:14A | Germany:6

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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Metropolis: Cannes 2007 - Special" (2007) more

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Harrison Ford meets Cold Mountain meets the Asian Steppes, 17 May 2009
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Author: rddavies from United States

Torreton looks like a French Harrison Ford - who confronts adversity with puppy dog eyes and a grimace. The plot is Cold Mountain which is itself I guess the Odyssey - a long journey in the company of others, where a series of encounters take place, each a bit stranger than the next. As others have said *nothing* in this movie objectively makes sense. I can't think of a single scene that could happen the way it is portrayed in real life. Not one. Certainly not the beginning of the movie where the principal character is going to walk across the desert, dressed in somewhat formal clothes carrying a satchel? Or the one where he's arrested by the security folks and then let go with apologies and money? To they guy who sells words, to the girl who just decides to go with him. I don't buy it.

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