Section: Close-Up: Kazakhstan

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Yernar Nurgaliev
KAZ, 2022, 92 Min

Slacker humor in a sports format. When an athletics coach sees the crook brothers Askar and Bekzat on the run from the police, he recognizes their potential and tries to make them champions. But that's not an easy task, because discipline is a foreign word for the two of them.

After the death of their father, who always encouraged them to do honest work, Askar and Bekzat engage in thievery. They are not clever, but they are extremely fast and so even the police can usually only see their shadows moving away in the distance. One day, the athletics coach of the Kazakh national team watches Askar and Bekzat storm off again and is very impressed. Without further ado, he suggests training them to become champions. This new high-performance environment is an unfamiliar place for the brothers, who actually prefer to slouch on the couch. Only the arrival of the beautiful trainer's daughter awakens their motivation. Will they finally manage to pull themselves together? Yernar Nurgaliev stages a fast-paced hurdle race across deserts and the ups and downs of love.

Text: Joshua Jádi

 

The film will be shown in the Stadthalle in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

The film will be shown in the Weltspiegel in the original language and with English subtitles. No translation into German!

Produzent
Maxim Akbarov
Produktion
Golden Man media
Yernar Nurgaliev

Yernar Nurgaliev - Kazakh director, clip maker, editor.He graduated from the Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov.He is the director of 7 television series and 3 feature films. The last film project as a director "Zhanym you won't believe" received many prizes at international festivals.