Paradise

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Crew	Cinematography	Marat Tokhtabakiyev Boris Trochev
Editing	Editor	Sergei Dvortsevoy
Production	Producer	Sergei Dvortsevoy
Directing	Director	Sergei Dvortsevoy
Camera	Director of Photography	Sergei Dvortsevoy
Writing	Writer	Sergei Dvortsevoy
Art	Production Design	Gennadiy Popov
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