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World Premiere
The Book
A Window on Asian Cinema
Love/Romance · Social Criticism · Spirituality
- CountryKazakhstan
- Production Year2013
- Running Time93min
- FormatDCP
- ColorColor
Program Note
A film about question of live in the emerging fabulous material life. A young talented Ongar is an advertising director who enjoys wealth and honor. His life, however, is empty inside. Not yet married, he falls in love with a married actress Zina. She is not happy with her marriage taking anti-depression pills, but hesitate to get divorced. Her child accidently got aborted due to the side effects of the pills that Ongar was in charge of promotion. Ongar feels guilty and decides to quit his career in spite that everyone is opposed to his resign. He goes to hometown in the countryside seeking for comforts from religion. However, the organized religion system doesn’t help much. Then Zina comes to visit him. Fanatical youngsters in the village doesn’t like them to be together especially when it’s the holy Ramadan period. Kazakhstan is one of the fastest growing country. Magnificent buildings and luxury sports cars have come along with new era of visual media. The happiness of human, however, depends on the older troubles which are how to love truly and how to live fully. The director Yerbol Zhumagulov clearly oppose that this doesn’t mean to return to the life in the countryside nor religious fundamentalism. The postmodernism of this society should be written joyfully by them themselves.
(PARK Sungho)
Director

Yerbol ZHUMAGULOV
Yerbol Zhumagulov hails from Almaty, Kazakhstan, and at one time played professional soccer. After graduated from the State Kazakh Academy of Tourism and Sport he worked as a reporter for the British Institute and the press service for the Kazakh embassy in Russia. Zhumagulov is also a published poet and author. The Book is his feature filmmaking debut.
Credit
- Director
Yerbol ZHUMAGULOV - ProducerSain Gabdullin
- CastAitzhanov Berik
Zimina Yuliya - ScreenplayYerbol Zhumagulov
- Production Company"Kino"
"Kazakhfilm"
kzf.kim@gmail.com
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