Student
Kazakhstan
2012
90 Min
Color
Kazakh, Russian
Synopsis
The film is based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Crime and Punishment.” A student of the Philosophy Faculty suffers from a lack of money and loneliness. One day the owner of the store and one usual shopper became student‘s crime victims. The sense of guilt grew in his mind. Gradually, the student realized that what he had done came to the police and gave up. –Cannes Film Festival
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Darezhan Omirbaev
With a degree in Mathematics, Omirbaev first approached cinema theoretically, graduating from VGIK with a thesis on film semiotics and writing criticism for the magazine Novoe Kino. Omirbaev’s theoretical concerns translate seemlessly to the making of films, and like other critics turned directors, finds human expression for his ideas. Like Bresson, he pays close attention to details, to points of subtle contact between people, and particularly in Kardiogramma – to the merging of dream and reality. And like Godard, his films are self-referential (Jol), and literary (Kairat). His first feature film, Kairat, won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. —Seagull Films
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Eva Fools Around
31Mar13
so full of aborted "philosophical" stumps. "climate and environment create civilization", only christianity is not a product of western european climate and post-totalitarian states present amazingly similar symptoms, regardless of temperature.
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msmichel
15Sep12
TIFF '12 Omirbaev's take on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' set in modern day Kazakhstan though not completely succesful is an interesting and arresting work. Missing is the police procedial side of the story focusing on the young man's inner guilt instead. Performances seem somewhat amateurish but made up for by strongly scripted scenes. Sad and beautiful very apt adjectives to apply.
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xrystyna
14Sep12
this film annoyed me with too much 'in your face' symbolism. besides, behind the appearance of being oh-so-critical of the contemporary Kazakh society - with the thugs working in banks and their empty-headed young wives etc - a la Žilnik style, it actually (at least to my eye) was creating the much better image of Kazakhstan than the one one gets from the critical reports on the situation in the country (for instance
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Cannes 2012. Darezhan Omirbaev's "Student"
By Daniel Kasman on May 19, 2012
Kazakh master Darezhan Omirbaev continues adapting Russian literature—after Chekhov and Tolstoy—with a moving, pared Crime and Punishment.
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Student (UR would be PG-13/R - 3 Stars)
By Dennis Kriz on April 25, 2013
Set in Almati, Kazakhstan, Student (directed by Darezhan Omirabayev) is a contemporary retelling of Dostoyevsky’s famous novel Crime and Punishment. The central, Raskolnikov, character… read review
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