Timur Aidarbekov
Aslan
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.
Release Date | 2013-02-06 |
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Runtime | 1h 55m |
Directors | Emir Baigazin, Aziz Zhambakiev, Adeliya Toguzakova, Lyudmila Velitchenko, Damir Tanatov, Gulbarshin Abuyeva, Darya Shevtsova, Kairat Temirgaliyev |
Producers | Anna Katchko, Guillaume de Seille, Benny Drechsel, Rebekka Garrido, Aliya Mendygozhina, Michael Reuter, Karsten Stöter |
Writer | Emir Baigazin |