Whoever Softer
| Whoever Softer | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Abay Karpykov |
| Produced by |
Andrey Razumovsky Yury Romanenko Serik Zhubandykov Anar Kashaganova Oraz Rymzhanov |
| Written by |
Abay Karpykov Leila Ahinzhanova |
| Starring |
Bopesh Jandaev Kseniya Kachalina |
| Music by | Leonid Desyatnikov |
| Cinematography |
Nikolay Kirienkov Aleksey Berkovich George Gidt |
Production company | |
Release date | 1996[1] |
Running time | 92 min |
| Country |
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| Language | Russian |
Whoever Softer (Russian: Тот, кто нежнее, translit. Tot, kto nezhnee) is a feature film director by Abay Karpykov.[2][3]
Plot
A young man by the name of Danesh is hospitalized with a broken leg. An old man, his roommate at the hospital ward, tells Danesh about two relics: tamga (gold plate) and ruby. Once a year with their help it is possible to find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. Tamga was brought from abroad by Arab sheikhs, who are waiting for a messenger from the old man. After the old man's death, his sisters give Danesh the ruby and map of the Canyon and he goes off in search of treasure. His opponent becomes Ramazan, a bandit who kidnapped translator Alyona, who can read the Arabic inscription on the tamga.
Cast
- Bopesh Jandaev as Danesh[4]
- Kseniya Kachalina as Alyona
- Nikolay Stotsky as Gosha
- Andrei Rostotsky as Ramazan
- Farhat Abdraimov as Farhat
- Bolot Beyshenaliyev as Sultan Khan Giray
- Aristarkh Livanov as Baigali
Critical reception
At first, everything is unnecessarily meaningful, full of secrets and omissions, and even more, especially in the history of rivalry between two hard-hearted Kazakh brothers because of someone else's wealth, there is a lot of seriousness and pomposity that is not appropriate to this case, which is felt primarily in the behavior of Russian actors Andrei Rostotsky and Aristarkh Livanov. Paradoxically, the debutante Farhat Abdraimov felt a mocking and good-natured element of everything that was happening in the comic role of a seemingly formidable fat man (such as an infernal Japanese from the Goldfinger), who has an unexpectedly thin voice and a completely mild temper[5]. .