Yusuf RAZYKOV
Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ
Youssouf RAZYKOV
Russia, 2009, 88mn 
Colour, fiction
Gastarbayter
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Гастарбайтер

 

 Gastarbeiter

 Gastarbeiter

 
Directed by : Yusuf RAZYKOV (Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ)
Writing credits : Yusuf RAZYKOV (Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ)
 
Cast
Farkhot ABDULLAEV (Фархот АБДУЛЛАЕВ)
Bakhdyr BOLTAEV (Бахадыр БОЛТАЕВ)
Daria GORSHAKALEVA (Дарья ГОРШКАЛЁВА)
Natalya GREBYONKINA (Наталия ГРЕБЁНКИНА)
Dilmurad MASAIDOV (Дильмурад МАСАИДОВ)
Aleksandr PASHUTIN (Александр ПАШУТИН)
Feruza RUZIEVA (Феруза РУЗИЕВА)
Ivan RYZHIKOV (Иван РЫЖИКОВ)
Mikhail SAMOKHVALOV (Михаил САМОХВАЛОВ)
Rano SHADIEVA (Рано ШАДИЕВА)
Dzhalol YUSUPOV (Джалол ЮСУПОВ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail ISKANDAROV (Михаил ИСКАНДАРОВ)
Production design : Svetlana SMIRNOVA (Светлана_2 СМИРНОВА)
Produced by : Vladimir MALYSHEV (Владимир МАЛЫШЕВ ), Andrey MALYSHEV (Андрей МАЛЫШЕВ)
Companies : AMA
 

Awards :
Prize Valeri Frid International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
The old sadyk has lived a life, which has brought him only losses: the war, the camp, his wife’s death, the premature death of his son. So he has turned away from life. He lives like a vegetable, awaiting his death. Until, one day, a tragic event brings him back to reality: his grandson, who has gone to earn money in Russia, has disappeared. His wife is in despair and does not know where to go with her woe; the only man in the house is old sadyk, who is confined to his bed. But the old man rises literally from his deathbed and goes to Moscow to search his grandson aman…
 

commentaries
Дед гастарбайтера - Гастарбайтер, режиссер Юсуп Разыков, Natalia SIRIVLYA, Искусство кино, 9, 2010
Yusup Razykov : Gastarbeiter (Gastarbaiter, 2009), Otto BOELE, kinokultura.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2010
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2010
- International Festival of Muslim Cinema, Kazan (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010