TULPAN
synopsis
After completing his naval service, young Asa travels back to the Kazakh steppe where his sister and her shepherd husband live a nomadic life. To start his new life, eager Asa must get married first before he can become a shepherd himself. Asa's only hope for marriage on the deserted steppe is Tulpan, the daughter of another shepherd family. Poor Asa is disappointed to learn that Tulpan doesn't like him because she thinks that his ears are too big. But Asa doesn't give up and he continues to dream of a life that may not be possible on the steppe ...
international title: | Tulpan |
original title: | Tulpan |
country: | Germany, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Sergey Dvortsevoy |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | BE 04/03/2009, FR 04/03/2009, GR 09/04/2009, IT 24/04/2009, CZ 07/05/2009, NL 07/05/2009, PT 14/05/2009 |
screenplay: | Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennadij Ostrowskij |
cast: | Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal Eslyamova, Tulepbergen Baisakalov, Ondasyn Besikbasov |
cinematography by: | Jolanta Dylewska |
film editing: | Petar Marković, Isabel Meier |
art director: | Roger Martin |
costumes designer: | Gaziza Korshiyeva |
producer: | Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos, Valerie Fischer, Raimond Goebel, Bulat Galimgereyev |
production: | Pandora Filmproduktion, Cobra Films AG, Kaz Eexport Cinema (KZ) Film Company Slovo, Ctb Filmproduction (RU) Filmcontract (PL) Pallas Film (DE) |
distributor: | ARP Sélection, Benelux Film Distributors (BE), Bim distribuzione (IT) |