Karoy

A seemingly amoral being, Azat exploits people with no apparent regard for their pain or survival. In a culture with extended family ties, Azat chooses those weak relatives who know him well enough not to trust him but not well enough to have learned how to resist his various cons. Outside the simple home of a hard-working distant cousin, he tearfully pleads for money for his sick mother, swearing to return the savings the man has painstakingly accumulated. But in a poker game in a dark fetid room, Azat and his money are soon parted. At a wedding, Azat spitefully claims to have slept with the bride which causes the groom to lay into his wife mercilessly. Azat doesn’t stick around to enjoy the fruits of his malice. Severely beaten by several unidentifiable victims, he is carted home where he’s awaited by a sick mother. —TCM