The Kazakhstan-born director's first feature-length film was a major discovery at last year's Cannes Film Festival where it won the Best Film award in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.
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Kazakh comedy film directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy and winner of the Prix un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Following his Russian naval service, Asa (Askhat Kuchinchirekov) returns to the countryside where his sister and her husband reside, in the hope of becoming a shepherd like his brother-in-law. However, in order for him to fulfill his ambition, he must first win the hand of Tulpan, one of the few eligible women in the area. Unfortunately, Tulpan confesses that she is simply not attracted to Asa and she finds his big ears especially unappealing. A determined Asa refuses to be discouraged and sets about trying to prove to Tulpan that he would make a worthy herder and husband.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Kazakh documentarian Segei Dvortsevoy won the prix Un Certain Regard for this, his first feature - an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie. As comic as it is awe-inspiring, Tulpan is set in the vast emptiness of southern Kazakhstan's Hunger Steppe. Having completed his miltary service, a young nomad named Asa returns home to his brother-in-law's yurt with hopes of becoming a shepherd. But is such a a life any longer possible in the moder world? First, Asa must wind the affections of his beautiful neighbour, Tulpan. Dvortsevoy gives us the bleak beauty of the steppe's windswept landscape: the endless sky, the camel stampedes, the raucous behaviour of a reggae-loving teamster, and one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes ever captured on film.
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