The Secret of a Leader Kazakhstan 2018 | 97 min | OV with German subtitles | Colour | FF 2019
Farkhat Sharipov
FARKHAT SHARIPOV (*1983) studied at the Academy of Arts in Almaty and at the New York Film Academy. The Secret of a Leader won the main prize at the 41st International Film Festival in Moscow.
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Capitalism made in Kazakhstan: a bank clerk longs for glamour and girls and lands up in a world of false friends and dirty money. Kanat is fed up with his monotonous life. In his early 40s and divorced, he lives with his mother who suffers from dementia. He‘s stuck in a dead-end job in a bank. When he bumps into his ex-student buddy Daniyar, his drab life perks up. Daniyar represents everything that Kanat aspires to – a charismatic leader with a certain ruthlessness. At his side, Kanat has access to the upper echelons of Kazakhstan society and has to at some point ask himself: how much am I prepared to pay for success? Supported by
Orig. Title: Sekret lidera
Filmtype: Fiction Feature
Original language: Russian
Section: Kaleidoscope
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Director: Farkhat Sharipov
Screenplay: Farkhat Sharipov, basierend auf dem Roman “Bricks 2.0” von Daniyar Surgalinov
Cast: Dulyga Akmolda, Yerzhan Tusupov, Gulzhamal Kazakbayeva, Philip Voloshin
Producer: Serik Zhubandykov,Yerzhan Akhmetov,Yuliya Kim
Sprachfassung: OV with German subtitles
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Director of Photography: Alexander Plotnikov
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Format: dcp
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World Sales: Ant!pode Sales & Distribution
Production: Kadam Production, Kazakhfilm Studios
Contact: Evgeniya Chulkova, Ant!pode Sales & Distribution: festivals@antipode-sales.biz
