"Actor: Khurched Golibekov"

• To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die marks director Djamshed Usmonov (Angel On The Right) out as one of the brightest talents of post-Soviet cinema. Sparer bleaker and much more unsettling than his previous films it stars Khurched Golibekov as the sullen wide-eyed Kamal who has been married for a few months but is unable to consummate his marriage. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor Kamal sets off to town to find a woman. With his child-like country-boy naivete he struggles to meet anyone until a chance encounter on a bus. This accidental meeting takes him on a far more troubling and darker journey than he was counting on... Compared by critics to Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film On Love Usmonov's sure-footed direction and storytelling make for a film that gently gradually pulls the rug from under out feet in a classic example of less-is-more film-making.