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- MOVIE page: Uroki garmonii (2013)
- Rate: 6.4/10 total 82 votes
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 120 min
- Filming Location: Kazakhstan
- Director: Emir Baigazin
- Stars: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov | See full cast and crew
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Emir Baigazin (screenplay)
Story:
Produced By:
- Guillaume de Seille known as co-producer
- Benny Drechsel known as co-producer
- Rebekka Garrido known as co-producer
- Anna Katchko known as producer
- Aliya Mendygozhina known as line producer
- Michael Reuter known as co-producer
- David Steinberger known as assistant producer
- Karsten Stöter known as co-producer
- Timur Aidarbekov known as Aslan
- Aslan Anarbayev known as Bolat
- Mukhtar Andassov known as Mirsain
- Anelya Adilbekova known as Akzhan
- Omar Adilov known as Mad
- Adlet Anarbekov known as Takhir
- Daulet Anarbekov known as Damir
- Nursultan Nurbergenov known as Maksat
- Nurdaulet Orazymbetov known as Daniyar
- Erasyl Nurzhakyp known as Arsen
- Assan Kirkabakov known as Shokan
- Ramazan Sultanbek known as Gani
- Beibitzhan Muslimov known as Chief Investigator
- Bagila Kobenova known as Aslan's Grandmother
Production Companies:
- Kazakhfilm Studios
- Post Republic, The (co-production)
- Rohfilm (co-production)
- Arizona Films (co-production)
Uroki garmonii (2013) Review by KnatLouie from Copenhagen, Denmark
This movie is about the young boy, Aslan (Timur Aidarbekov), who livesin a small rural town in Kazakhstan, being raised by his grandmother,with no siblings or parents around. When Aslan goes to school, he isconstantly bullied by the school's worst thug, Bolat (Aslan Anarbayev),who also racketeers money and valuable items to gangsters on the schoolproperty.
Bolat has a grudge against Aslan for some reason, and tricks him intodrinking a glass of penis-dipped water, which makes Aslan thelaughing-stock of all the other kids in the school. Bolat eventhreatens the other kids with severe beatings, so they won't befriendor even talk to Aslan, as Bolat just hates him so much.
But one day, a new boy arrives in class, Mirsain (Mukhtar Andassov),who comes from the big city. He quickly befriends Aslan, and won'tstand for Bolat's threats, even though he regularly beats both of themup, with the help of his loyal goons. Now, I won't spoil what happensnext, but it's suffice to say, that none of the three boys' lives willever be the same again, when Bolat is suddenly alone, and confrontedafter school.
The movie also shows how cynical and incompetent the police-force are,after handling the case with the three boys. Hopefully this is not thecase in real life as well, but I'm afraid that many countries stillaccept confessions made under torture, and this movie shows one of thereasons why that is unacceptable.
The director, Emir Baigazin, apparently makes his debut with this film,which just makes it even more impressive. The acting from the kids ispretty good, and many of the images are visually striking throughoutthe film. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a long career for allof those involved.
This movie is also very good for educational purposes, to show the illeffects of crime and bullying in school, as well as generallyportraying life in rural areas of Kazakhstan.
Uroki garmonii (2013) Review by octopusluke from Denmark
-- Review originally published at www.theframeloop.com --
Acclaimed Berlinale Golden Bear award winning debut Harmony Lessonsmakes it's way to the CPH PIX Film Festival. A terse, gruellingDarwinian drama, and just about the best film I've seen so far thisyear.
We're first introduced to lonesome thirteen-year-old Aslan (TimurAidarbekov) while he chases a bouncing sheep across his grandmother'sfarm. It's a playful sequence, totally transformed when – with anunnerving stoney complexion – Aslan proceeds to capture the ewe, slitit's throat and prepare it for food. Perhaps it's a normalised,essential activity in bucolic Kazakhstan, but it's nevertheless apoetic foreshadowing of the savagery we will soon witness.
Life in the classroom is far from peachy for Aslan either. After amalicious sex-ed prank leaves him humiliated and ostracised, he's leftwandering alone in the shadows of the school corridors. Like anyinstitution, there is a strict hierarchy here. Top of the wolf pack andchief tormentor is Bolat (Alsna Anarbayev) who, with his team ofsubservient wing-men, run an underground extortion circuit; swipingmoney from the smaller school kids, and passing it upwards to thoseolder and taller than he. Meanwhile, the OCD suffering Aslan returns tohis home chambers every night to conduct callous scientific experimentson the defenceless insects that populate his decrepit home. When theseacts of brutality no longer suffice, Aslan calculates a scheme that hehopes will overthrow the horrendous autocracy.
Baigazan exhorts a great deal of ingenuity into the ripe Lord of theFlies rehash premise, even if his necessity for allegory may beconsidered to some as a little belaboured. An adept purveyor ofcinematic symmetry, he uses the drab school compound to reflect theprismatic, oppressive and religiously conflicted society these youthswill soon be forced into. But, for now, they are still precariousteenagers; cloaked in ill-fitting school uniforms like would-be mafiosoclobber. This is no song-and-dance Bugsy Malone, however. Framed withmorbid fascination by cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev, the situationis observed rather than explored, with Aslan kept at such an objectivedistance that he is presented as more of an emotionally vapid wildbeast than a despairing child. Found by Baigazan in a children'sshelter, there's such a haunting sincerity to Timur Aidarbekov'sperformance that the social unrest subtext is palpable to all, and –despite your eagerness to look away – the tragedy is so cinematicallyentrancing that you won't be able to.
As writer, director and editor, cineaste Baigazan's debut is enrichedwith nods to other filmmakers, deploying a Bresson-like moral economyto the portrait of grim suburban schooling, mixed with the severity ofthe Dardenne Brothers' L'infant, and subtle glimpses of Tarkovsky'soneiric surrealism come the film's beguiling, unforgettable end. Evenstill, Baigazan is working within his own aesthetic realm, with a rare,vehemently grim portrait of life in Kazakhstan. Primitive and poetic,Harmony Lessons tackles the universal theme of angst-riddledadolescence and merciless social autonomy to both cruel and beautifulaplomb.
-- Review originally published at www.theframeloop.com --
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