Paradise

Schastye

Kazakhstan

1996

25 Min

Color

Kazakh

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Dvortsevoy’s first film is a portrait of a nomad shepherd and his family camped in the Southern mountains of Kazakhstan. Unforgettable images—of a toddler fighting sleep to eat his bowl of sour cream, a camel undergoing nose piercing by pocket knife—combine in a mesmerizing documentation of life lived in a forbidding landscape. —Harvard Film Archive

Director

Sergei Dvortsevoy

Sergey Dvortsevoy (born in 1962) worked as an aviation engineer before studying film in Moscow in the early 1990s. His films immediately garnered international acclaim, receiving prizes and recognition at festivals around the world, including the nomination of Bread Day (1998) for the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. The following year his work was presented at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an institution dedicated to Flaherty’s adherence to the goal of seeing and depicting the human condition. Dvortsevoy’s documentaries are committed to observational filmmaking. His subjects — people living in and around a Russia in transition — try in their individual ways to eke out an existence. Tulpan is his first fiction film, which has been nominated into the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Achievement in Directing. —Wikipedia