My Brother Silk Road

Altyn Kyrghol

Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

2002

81 Min

Black and White

Kyrgyz

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CAST Busurman Odurakaev, Tynar Abdrazaeva, Makambet Toktobayev, Kabatai Kyzy Elmira, Tamlay Imanaliev, Urmat Samudunov, Japarkul Kyzy Jarkinai, Shayilda Jirgalbek

PROD DES Shailobek Djekshenbaev

SOUND Rishbek Mamirkanov

Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plata, Berlinale (Panorama)

Synopsis

A railway line now cuts across the midst of the Kirghiz steppe where once the Silk Road ran. Four children, including their rather brash leader, set out from their native village in the mountains on a journey to the railway track. At the same time, a train makes its way across the steppe; the encounter with this train will indeed dramatically change the lives of at least two of these children. —International Film Festival Innsbruck

Director

Marat Sarulu

Born 1957 in Kyrgyzstan. Graduated in philology from the Kyrgyz National University in Bishkek. Afterwards he studied at the Moscow Film Academy. Sarulu works as a director and writer; among others he wrote the script for the successful film The Adopted Son (Aktan Abdykalykov, 1998). His short film The Fly Up (2002) has been screened at several international film festivals. Molenie o Prechistoj ptitse/Praying for the Virgin Bird (1989, short), In Spe (1993), Mandala (1998, short doc), Ergy/The Fly Up (2001, short), Altyn Kyrghol/My Brother Silk Road (2001), Burnaja reka, bezmiateznoje more/The Rough River, the Placid Sea (2004), Pesn’ yuzhnih morei/Song from the Southern Seas (2008). —Split Film Festival