Khuat AKHMETOV
Хуат АХМЕТОВ
Khouat AKHMETOV
Russia, 2006, 96mn 
Colour, fiction
Wind-Man
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Человек-ветер

 

 L'Homme-vent

 Chelovek-veter

 
Directed by : Khuat AKHMETOV (Хуат АХМЕТОВ)
Writing credits : Odelsha AGISHEV (Одельша АГИШЕВ), Khuat AKHMETOV (Хуат АХМЕТОВ)
 
Cast
Gulnara DOUSMATOVA (Гульнара ДУСМАТОВА)
Igor YASULOVICH (Игорь ЯСУЛОВИЧ)
Ayana YESMAGAMBETOVA (Аяна ЕСМАГАМБЕТОВА)
 
Cinematography : Rifkat IBRAGIMOV (Рифкат ИБРАГИМОВ)
Production design : Nigmat DJURAEV (Нигмат ДЖУРАЕВ)
Sound : Andrey MOLCHANOV (Андрей МОЛЧАНОВ)
Produced by : Rauf ATAMALIBEKOV (Рауф АТАМАЛИБЕКОВ), Stanislav ERSHOV (Станислав ЕРШОВ)
Production : United Multimedia Projects, Studios Gorky
Release date in Russia : 2007
 
Site : www.gorkyfilm.ru/wind.shtml

Plot synopsis
Poetic parable
In a tiny aul, forgotten in the steppe, a strange creature ñ an old man with huge broken wings broken ñ crashes during a thunderstorm. The people are scared and want to kill this creature, but gradually they get used to the man and leave him alone, even if they donít quite take to him. Only a little boy finds a true friend in him. Once, when saving the boyís life, the old winged man perishes and the boy lives with the dream that, sometime, he will grow wings and fly up into the sky to his best friend, the Old Angel.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Khuat Akhmetov : Wind-Man (Chelovek-veter, 2007), José ALANIZ, kinokultura.com, 2008
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Film Festival Ghent, Ghent (Belgium), 2008
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2008
- Tokyo International Film Festival : TIFF, Tokyo (Japan), 2008
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2008
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2008
- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), 2008
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2007
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2007