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Paradise (1995)
Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
Documentary · 22m
Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Crew
- Director
- Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Writer
- Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Director of Photography
- Sergei Dvortsevoy, Gennadiy Popov
- Editor
- Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Producer
- Sergei Dvortsevoy
Details
- Original title
- Счастье
- Release date
- 1995-03-07
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- KK
- Spoken languages
- Kazakh
- Countries
- Kazakhstan, Russia
- Production
- Kazakhfilm Studios, VKSR