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Sagyntaydyn birinshi ayeli

Sagyntay's First Wife

Daniyar Salamat

Kazakhstan , 2015, 70 Min

Calingash, Sagintay's wife, lives together with her daughters in a provincial Kazakh town. The town's men while away the time hanging around and drinking, whilst the women sell what they can to put food on the table. Despite this desolate existence moments of human warmth, be it the slightest touch or a fleeting glance, shine through now and again.

Daniyar Salamat

Dariyan Salamat accompanies Calingash as she completes her arduous chores; to the pawnbroker's shop, then the local shop where she pays for her groceries with an IOU, and finally back home, where she tries to get the dated television set going again so that she might provide for at least a modicum of family entertainment. Shot from a respectful distance and yet rarely venturing far from his protagonist, the director unobtrusively draws attention to the daily struggles of a woman abandoned by husband and society alike, whilst leaving room for conciliatory gestures between a mother and her daughters. SwS

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Daniyar Salamat

Kamera
Timur Sarilbayev

Ton
Akylbek Zhussip

Ausstattung
Nurbolat Zhapakov

Darsteller
Aldiya Sembayeva, Yerbolat Alkozha, Ayaulym Ibraimova, Beinur Baimukhambet, Bauyrzhan Karibayev

Produzent
Daniyar Salamat

Produktion
DS Film

Kontakt
Daniyar Salamat
8 Balzak Street 384
050000 Almaty
Kazakhstan
Tel.: +7.702.310.11 93
daniyar.salamat@gmail.com

Daniyar Salamat - born 1970. In 1998, he graduated from the scriptwriting apartment of the National Academy of Arts in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His debut feature film ZHOSHE was awarded the Grand Prix at the Shaken’s Stars IFF in Almaty and the Prize of Best Director at the Creative Flight-Festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Movies
ZHOSHE (2005)
AKEM EKEUIMYZ (2008)
BAYTEREK (2009)
KISHKENTAI (2012)

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