A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
September 21, 2023
Original Title:
Esimde
Alternate Titles:
Я помню
父は憶えている
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Bitters End
Kyrgyzfilm
Mandra Films
Oy Art Film Producing Company
Volya Films
Production Countries:
France | Japan | Kyrgyz Republic | Netherlands | Singapore
Ratings / Certifications:
NL: 16
Runtime: 105
An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his matured son Kubat. Much has changed during his absence: the morals of the villagers, mired in the realities of a changing world, radicalization of Islam, growing crime, and moral corrosive corruption began to consume... Zarlyk’s wife Umsunai, having lost hope of his return, went into religion, married the local authority Jaichy. The bright past invades the already accustomed Umsunai’s life. But nothing touches Zarlyk. An inexplicable passion for collecting garbage replaced him everything. Will the memory return to him and will Umsunai gain lost happiness when they are pressed by tight attitudes and immorality of the clergy, when love has eclipsed recklessness?
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Director:
Aktan Arym Kubat
Director of Photography:
Talant Akynbekov
Editor:
Evgeniy Krokhmalenko
Line Producer:
Jyrgalbek Duisheyev
Producer:
Fleur Knopperts
Denis Vaslin
Altynai Koichumanova
Carine Chichkowsky
Yuji Sadai
Production Design:
Elchibek Shamenov
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