The Time of Yellow Grass

Время желтой травы

Tajikistan, Soviet Union

1991

64 Min

Color

Russian

Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Dato Chubinishvili, Sayf Rakhimov, Aleksei Katunin

DP Zikrije Israilov, Okil Khamidov

CAST Roland Ter-Makarov, Sherali Abdulkajsov, Musavar Minakov, Bobodzhon Khasanov, Jamshed Usmonov

In a remote Tadjik mountain village, some shepherds come across a dead body. No one knows who he is or where he’s from, but they soon discover that he is not a Muslim. As the news spreads, the people decide what should be done with this “infidel.” THE TIME OF YELLOW GRASS is a film of powerful simplicity, in which documentary and fiction dissolve into one fluid means of expression. Not unlike Kiarostami with The Wind Will Carry Us and Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Mariam Yusupova ties all her action into the starkly beautiful landscape, and a remarkable portrait of a people and a place out of time develops. (aka titles: Vremya zheltoy travy / Vremya zhyoltoy travy / Mavsimi Alafchai Sard). —seagullfilms.com

Director

Mairam Yusupova

A graduate of VDIK, Yusupova works in film and television. She has made more than thirty documentaries, many of them depicting the troubles of her home country, which has spent much of the past decade embrioled in a civil war. Even her acclaimed feature, The Time of the Yellow Grass— Kiarostami-like in its blurring of documentary and fiction— though predating the war, foretold of tragic events on the horizon. —Seagull Films