영화 정보
Last Holiday
Special Programs in Focus
Crime/Violence · Social Criticism · Politics/Conspiracy · Irony
- CountryKazakhstan
- Production Year1996
- Running Time65 min
- Format 35mm
- Colorcolor
Program Note
In 1979, when the Republic of Kazakhstan was still a part of the Soviet Union, suppressed rage and the loneliness fill Almaty. On the last day of classes, three high school students - a Russian Valera, a Jew Jacob, and a Kazakh Karim - steal an electric guitar set because of drinking and angst. Valera is arrested because of a call of from his stepfather, and Jacob and Karim kill Valera′s stepfather as they try to avenge their friend. Finally, Valera dies and Jacob is arrested. The spring break is over. On the first day of classes, Karim participates in the school parade singing a patriotic song about the Soviet Army. What director Karakulov tries to tell is the hazy history of Kazakhstan. The savage stepfather who drives Valera to death symbolizes Russia as the absolute authority exploiting Kazakhstan for hundreds of years. And Jacob and his gloomy family show the Jewish history of oppression and discrimination, and Karim singing the Soviet Army song concealing anger and fear, is a metaphor for the political situation Kazakhs were in then. One of the best Kazakh Nouvelle-Vague films. (Yu Hyun-Mi)
Director
Amir Karakulov
Born in 1965 in Almaty, Amir Karakulov studied journalism at the Kazakh University for 2 years. Later he changed his direction and entered VGIK. He made his debut with Woman between Two Brothers, which was shown at numerous film festivals including Venice, Barcelona, Rotterdam and won FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. His second feature Dove‘s Bell-Ringer was awarded the Grand-Prix at the Taormina Film Festival.
Photo
Credit
- Director Amir Karakulov 아미르 카라쿨로프
- Producer Sano Shinju, Amir Karakulov
- Cast Sanzhar Iskakov, Shalva Gogoladze, Anatoly Gapchuk
- Screenplay Amir Karakulov, Elena Gordeeva
- Cinematography Murat Nugmanov
- Production Design Bopesh Dzhandaev
- Editor Yuliya Nilovaya
- Sound Andrey Vlaznev
- Music Manas Karakulov
- Production Company
STUDIO D
Dostyck St.46, 68, 4800100 Almaty, Kazakhstan
studio-d@ma.kcom.ne.jp