The Dove's Bell-Ringer

Golubinyj zvonar

Kazakhstan

1994

70 Min

Color

Kazakh

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SCR Amir Karakulov, Yelena Gordeyeva

CAST Elmira Makhmutova, Chingiz Nogalbayev

Where Last Holiday dealt with the problems of urban life, The Dove’s Bell-Ringer takes place in the Kazakh countryside. A young couple, Timur and Elya, use their love as a shield against the harshness of the world around them. When Elya becomes pregnant their happiness seems secured. Fate, however, has a different ending written for their love, one far more tragic than the life they have pictured. Orpheus re-imagined against a backdrop of pastoral beauty and social isolation, The Dove’s Bell-Ringer is a modern fable—a narrative rooted in myth and fantasy with a visual style marked by lyrical, expansive photography. —San Francisco International Film Festival

Director

Amir Karakulov

After studying cinema at the VGIK in Moscow and working at the Institute of Dramatic Arts in his native Alma Ata, Karakulov began making films in 1989. Beginning with his first feature, Razluchnitsa— a potent transposition of the classic love triangle to an intimate Kazakh setting— Karakulov’s films have garnered attention at various international film festivals, including the Venice and Rotterdam Festivals; his Posledniye kanikuly was a winner at Rotterdam. Willing to evolve and experiment, he has used both film and video, makes fiction features and advertisements, and is president of the Dubut foundation for young filmmakers at Kazakhfilm. —Seagull Films