Yermek SHINARBAYEV
Ермек ШИНАРБАЕВ
Ermek CHINARBAEV
USSR (Kazakhstan), 1990, 96mn 
Colour, fiction
Revenge
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Месть

 

 La Vengeance

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Directed by : Yermek SHINARBAYEV (Ермек ШИНАРБАЕВ)
Writing credits : Anatoli KIM (Анатолий КИМ)
 
Cast
Juozas BUDRAITIS (Юозас БУДРАЙТИС)
Olga ENZAK (Ольга ЕНЗАК)
Liubov GERMANOVA (Любовь ГЕРМАНОВА)
Kasym ZHAKIBAYEV (Касым ЖАКИБАЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey KOSMANEV (Сергей КОСМАНЕВ)
Music : Vladislav SHUT (Владислав ШУТЬ)
Production : Kazakhfilm
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1990

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Carlotta Films. 2012. Titre : La Flûte de roseau.
Coffret World Cinema Foundation - Volume 1
Ce coffret de 4 DVD contient les films suivants : "Les Révoltés d'Alvarado", "Le Voyage de la hyène", "Transes" et "La Flûte de roseau"
Le DVD 4 est sur "La force de la poésie" : le cinéaste kazakh évoque la singularité de son film, tourné en pleine perestroïka d'après un scénario du grand écrivain russe d'origine coréenne, Anatoli Kim (29')

Plot synopsis
In the beginning of the 1940’s, hundreds of thousands of Koreans that had lived in the Russian Far East since the 19th Century were forcibly displaced overnight according to Stalin’s orders. They were regarded as traitors and public enemies. Women, children and old people were sent away with no explanation. The Korean diaspora, with a population of over a million, has been a forbidden topic for many years. Revenge is the first film telling the story of their tragedy. In a rage, a teacher murders a boy. Another boy is bred, for one sole purpose: to avenge his brother’s death. Kazakh master Ermek Shinarbaev’s close collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer Anatoli Kim yielded three great films, the most remarkable of which is this beautiful, profoundly unsettling film. A true odyssey, geographically and psychologically, it is one of the greatest films to emerge from the Kazakh New Wave and one of the toughest. Restored in 2010 by the World Cinema Foundation using the original camera negative, the sound negative and a positive print provided by the Kazakhfilm Studio and held at the State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Source : http://www.jdiff.com/downloads/jdiff2011.pdf
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin (Ireland), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1991
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1990