Aleksandr_2 KARPOV
Александр_2 КАРПОВ
Aleksandr_2 KARPOV
USSR, 1963, 80mn 
Black and white, fiction
Mother’s Tale
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Сказ о матери

 

 L'Epopée d'une mère

 Skaz o materi

 
Directed by : Aleksandr_2 KARPOV (Александр_2 КАРПОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr SATSKY (Александр САЦКИЙ), Zhumabay TASHENOV (Жумабай ТАШЕНОВ)
 
Cast
Amina UMURZAKOVA (Амина УМУРЗАКОВА) ...mother
I. SHALBAYEVA (И. ШАЛАБАЕВА)
K. YESIMBEKOV (К. ЕСИМБЕКОВ)
Mukhtar BAKHTYGEYEV (Мухтар БАХТЫГЕРЕЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Askhat ASHRAPOV (Асхат АШРАПОВ)
Production design : Juda VAYNSHTOK (Юда ВАЙНШТОК)
Music : Anatoli BYCHKOV (Анатолий БЫЧКОВ)
Production : Kazakhfilm
 
format : 35 mm

Plot synopsis
The film takes place during the Second World War. The heroin whose son was sent to the front is illiterate, not knowing how to read nor write. But as the only way to get news from the front is to read letters from the front, she learns how to read and is even employed as post man. Many people get bad news through the letters she delivers.
This is a typical film for the ‘lieutenant film-makers’ who studied cinema after they fought in the war. The film is part of a serial of work which at the time of the thaw tried to think again about this period in their history. "Mother’s Tale" was awarded at Karlovy Vary festival in 1964.
Source : Festival de Vesoul, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Vesoul International Asiatic Film Festival, Vesoul (France), 2012