Feature film
Last Holiday
Последние каникулы
Amir Karakulov · 1996
Synopsis
Alma-Ata, 1979. On the last day of school, three friends, Valera, Karim and Yakov, break into a room and steal an electric guitar. Valera's stepfather, with whom he gets on badly, reports him to the militia, who beat him, suspecting him of belonging to a gang, and throw him back onto the street gravely wounded. His two friends hide him in an attic and, unable to treat him, go to the dealers for painkillers, while his condition worsens.
Context
The filmmaker also wrote the screenplay and edited the film, the cinematography is by Mourat Nugmanov and the production by Studio D. The action takes place in 1979, some fifteen years before the shoot, in the Soviet Alma-Ata, which the film scarcely leaves. Shown in its European premiere at Rotterdam in 1997, it received a Tiger there, worth about ten thousand dollars; the festival showed at the same time the first two films of its director.
Who it is for
One hour and five minutes, in Russian with subtitles. It is best to know that the action takes place in 1979, under the Soviet regime, and not in the independent Kazakhstan of the shooting.
Prizes and reception
Tiger Award at the Rotterdam festival in 1997, one of the three awarded that year, alongside Hong Sang-soo and Patrick Keiller.
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