TULPAN
SYNOPSIS
Big ears can be a real problem, especially when you are not Prince Charles. Asa, our hero, never thought about it - unless he is going to marry...///////// After completing his naval service, young Asa travels back to the Kazakh steppe ehere 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 shepheard 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...
DIRECTOR | Sergey Dvortsevoy |
YEAR | 2008 |
STATUS | completed |
FESTIVALS AWARDS | Cannes Film Festival 2008: „Prix Un Certain Regard“ „Prix de la Jeunesse“ and "Prix de l'Education Nationale" Zürich 2008: Golden Eye-Best Film Reykjavik 2008: Discovery of the year Maneki Brothers-Silver Camera 2008 Montreal 2008: Louve d'or-Best Feature Film Award Tokyo 2008: Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix BFI London 2008: Sutherland Trophy Asian-Pacific Screen Award-Best Feature Film 2008 |
CAST | Askhat Kuchinchirekov (Asa) Tulepbergen Baisakalov (Boni) Samal Yeslyamova (Samal Asa's Sister) Ondasyn Besikbasov (Ondas Samal's husband) Bereke Turganbayev (Beke) |
CO PRODUCTION WITH | Pandora Film in co-production wih Cobra Film (Switzerland) Eurasia Film (Kazakhstan) Film Company Slovo (Russia) CTB Filmproduction (Russia) Filmcontract (Poland) Pallas Film (Halle Germany) in association with ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel & ZDF/Arte Schweizer Fernsehen BiM Distribuzione |
SUPPORTED BY | Medien und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Polish Filminstitut Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft (BAK) Russian Federal Agency of Culture and Cinema MEDIA Development |
WORLD SALES | The Match Factory |
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih |
LENGTH | 100 min. |
FORMAT | 35mm colour 1:1.85 Dolby SRD |
SHOOTING LOCATION | Kazakhstan |
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | kazakh and russian |
PRODUCERS | producers by Karl Baumgartner Valerie Fischer (Cobra Film) Gulnara Sarsenova Bulat Galimgereyev (Eurasia Film) Sergey Melkumov Elena Yatsoura (Slovo) Sergey Selyanov (CTB) Henryk Romanowski (Filmcontract) Thanassis Karathanos (Pallas) Raimond Goebel (Pandora) Doris Hepp (comis. editor ZDF) Susann Wach-Rósza (comis. editor SF) |
WRITERS | Sergei Dvortsevoy Gennady Ostrovskiy |
CASTING | |
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Jolanta Dylewska, psc |
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Bohdan Graczyk Jacek Dabrowski |
EDITING | Petar Markovic Isabel Meier |
MUSIC | |
SOUND | Peter Bräker Olivier Dandre Williams Schmit Eric Tisserand |
ART DIRECTION | Roger Martin |
COSTUMES | Gaziza Korshiyeva |
MAKE UP HAIR | Tomasz Matraszek |
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | n/s |
DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | n/s |
LINKS | n/s |