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L'express des steppes

Steppe Express

(Stepnoi express)

by Amanzhol Aitouarov

Kazakhstan

 

L'express des steppes

Directors: Amanzhol Aitouarov, Satybaldy Narymbetov

Script: Odelcha Aguichev, Kouat Ahmetov

Cinematographer: H. Kydraliev

Sound: Andrey Vlaznev

Music: A. Sagatov

Cast: Aizhan Aitenova, François Labbé, T. Kuanyshev, Bolat Kalymbetov

Production: Kazakhfilm

Year: 2005

35 mm, Colour, 90 min
OV kazakh with French Subtitles

A railway line guard and his daughter Saoule are living in a small house by the railway station, in the middle of the Kazakh steppe. Etienne, a young French man travelling through the country, accidentally reaches this remote station, lost in the middle of nowhere. At first Etienne is recalcitrant, but he gradually tries to cope with the situation, adapting himself to the small family which welcomes him.

 

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