Director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s debut feature about two young brothers attempting to find their errant father is a deeply humane story about family and responsibility
There’s a marvellous freshness and gentleness to this 1991 movie, a little like early Truffaut, by Tajik-Russian director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov who achieved a wider festival prestige later in the 90s for his comedies Kosh Ba Kosh and Luna Papa. This film, Bratan or “Little Brother”, was in fact his debut, released when he was just 26 years old. Filmed in a seductive and luminous monochrome, it is a road movie, or rather a rail movie, that apparently makes quasi-documentary use of the non-professional people and places found along the way.
Two brothers, one about 16 and the other perhaps nine or ten, are living with their grandmother in a remote Tajik town: they are Farukh (Firus Sasaliyev) and Azamat, nicknamed “Pancake” (Timur Tursunov). The older boy seems...
There’s a marvellous freshness and gentleness to this 1991 movie, a little like early Truffaut, by Tajik-Russian director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov who achieved a wider festival prestige later in the 90s for his comedies Kosh Ba Kosh and Luna Papa. This film, Bratan or “Little Brother”, was in fact his debut, released when he was just 26 years old. Filmed in a seductive and luminous monochrome, it is a road movie, or rather a rail movie, that apparently makes quasi-documentary use of the non-professional people and places found along the way.
Two brothers, one about 16 and the other perhaps nine or ten, are living with their grandmother in a remote Tajik town: they are Farukh (Firus Sasaliyev) and Azamat, nicknamed “Pancake” (Timur Tursunov). The older boy seems...
- 9/11/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It was the debut film of Tajikistan-born Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov.
Wild Bunch International has acquired Venice Silver Lion- winning director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s 1991 feature, Bratan (aka Brothers), which is screening this week in Venice Classics.
The film was the debut feature of Tajikistan-born Khudojnazarov who died in 2015. He went on to make Kosh ba Kosh (international title Odd and Even) which won the Silver Lion in Venice 1993 and his international hit, Luna Papa in 1999.
Bratan has been restored by his friend and colleague, the German filmmaker Veit Helmer, whose credits include Tuvalu and Absurdistan. Helmer has spent many years searching for...
Wild Bunch International has acquired Venice Silver Lion- winning director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s 1991 feature, Bratan (aka Brothers), which is screening this week in Venice Classics.
The film was the debut feature of Tajikistan-born Khudojnazarov who died in 2015. He went on to make Kosh ba Kosh (international title Odd and Even) which won the Silver Lion in Venice 1993 and his international hit, Luna Papa in 1999.
Bratan has been restored by his friend and colleague, the German filmmaker Veit Helmer, whose credits include Tuvalu and Absurdistan. Helmer has spent many years searching for...
- 9/1/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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