The award-winning Kazakh director Emir Baigazin (Harmony Lessons) deals with the theme of youth destroyed in an eroding society in his surreal-like drama THE WOUNDED ANGEL. Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a time of transition from the Soviet era to a new state inscribed with emotional and economic depression. Each of the four main characters, all of whom are 13 years old, must go through a painful transition themselves; this presents them with a moral dilemma. They turn from being children – or ‘angels’ – to grown-ups, and are wounded along the way. "Shot entirely with amateur actors, the film impresses with it's extraordinary visual language." (Programmkino.de)
In his surreal drama, award-winning Kazakh director Emir Baigazin deals with youth in an eroding society.
The award-winning Kazakh director Emir Baigazin (Harmony Lessons) deals with the theme of youth destroyed in an eroding society in his surreal-like drama THE WOUNDED ANGEL.
Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a time of transition from the Soviet era to a new state inscribed with emotional and economic depression. Each of the four main characters, all of whom are 13 years old, must go through a painful transition themselves; this presents them with a moral dilemma. They turn from being children – or ‘angels’ – to grown-ups, and are wounded along the way.
"Shot entirely with amateur actors, the film impresses with it's extraordinary visual language." (Programmkino.de)