Midnight Screenings 2024 / Steppenwolf / Kazakhstan 2024
Director Adilkhan Yerzhanov has combined Hermann Hesse’s cult novel Steppenwolf with the classic westerns The Searchers and Red River. The result? A cynical road movie set in a wasteland wracked by civil war. Its protagonist is a lone warrior who long ago adapted to the ruthless reality of permanent struggle, and yet he decides to help a terrified mother find her lost son. Laconic and brutal, Steppenwolf takes us into a world permeated by violence, a world of eternal war of all against all. Even its hero, himself a part of the vicious cycle of killing, shows that in a world of wolves there is no such thing as a righteous gunslinger.
Antonín Tesař
101 min / Color, DCP
Director Adilkhan Yerzhanov
/ Screenplay Adilkhan Yerzhanov
/ Dir. of Photography Yerkinbek Ptyraliyev
/ Music Galymzhan Moldanazar
/ Sound Aleksandr Khimich
/ Editor Arif Tleuzhanov, Adilkhan Yerzhanov
/ Art Director Yermek Utegenov
/ Producer Aliya Mendygozhina, Alexander Rodnyansky
/ Production Golden Man Media
/ Coproduction The Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, State Center for the Support of National Cinema
/ Cast Berik Aitzhanov, Anna Starchenko
/ Sales Blue Finch Film Releasing
Adilkhan Yerzhanov (1982, Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan). Selected filmography: Rieltor (2011), The Plague at the Karatas Village (Chuma v aule Karatas, 2016), The Gentle Indifference of the World (Laskovoe bezrazlichie mira, 2018), A Dark, Dark Man (Qap-qara adam, 2019), Ulbolsyn (2020), Yellow Cat (Zheltaya Koshka, 2020), Ademoka’s Education (2022), Steppenwolf (2024).
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