The Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Mr. Bakyt Dyussenbayev hosted the opening of the Kazakh Cinema Days and the screening of the film “The Old Man”.
Watch the welcome speech of The Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Mr. Bakyt Dyussenbayev
The screening took place at the unique Kino Přítomnost. The film inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” was screened in its original Kazakh language with English subtitles.
Synopsis:
A small family – an old man, his daughter-in-law, and his grandson – leads an ordinary and unremarkable life in a distant steppe. They must not quarrel, though their communication is quite limited. They need to learn how to forgive and be wise so as not to spill the important truths along the way. It is essential for them to live humanly, and for the old man to pass on the key values of life to his grandson.
This is the great moral of the steppe: the necessity of doing good without expecting gratitude in return, the slow and unhurried flow of time without the thirst for profit or wealth, the simplicity and self-sufficiency, and the unbreakable connection with the legendary nomadic past of its present-day heirs.
An Important Notice: NO animals were hurt during the production of the movie.
