Cinema
Шоқ пен Шер
Kanymbek Kasymbekov · 1972
Synopsis
Cher, a little boy of the steppe, takes a liking to Chok, a foal born in the herd of his aul. He raises it, feeds it, defends it, and the animal grows up with him; one day the foal will have to join the horses and the child will have to let it go. Sixty-three minutes in colour, made for television, on a subject that comes down to two proper names.
Context
It is its author's first feature film, shot in 1971, in colour, for television, and it runs for sixty-three minutes. The studio was then producing a great deal for young audiences, a sector abundantly funded throughout the Union. Its author devoted most of his career to this audience, and in 1998 he returned to the youth of the aqyn Jambyl. The title joins the two names of the characters, that of the child and that of the beast, without saying which is which: it is the kind of title one misreads if one does not know the film.
Who it is for
One hour three minutes, in Kazakh. It is better to know that in the Kazakh steppe the horse is an animal of everyday life, raised among families.
Prizes and reception
Silver Nymph at the Monte Carlo festival in 1972, in the best children's film category, and prize of the Leninist Komsomol of Kazakhstan in 1974.