Kazakhstan?s ?Tulpan? impress American film critics

NEW YORK. April 2. KAZINFORM /Aliya Altyngazina/ Distribution of the Kazakh film ?Tulpan? directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy has been started in New York. As is known, the joint German-Swiss-Kazakh-Russian project has been awarded with several international prizes, including the special award of the Cannes film festival.

This is the story of a young Kazakh Asa who has just finished his military service and wants to marry. The picture was highly commented by the film critics of the leading American issues. Thus, The New York Times describes ?Tulpan? as an epic landscape picture with the elements of humor and romanticism. ?Tulpan? was shot in the traditions of the founder of the American documentary Robert Flaherty?, the newspaper writes. New York Post considers that along with such films as ?Shiza? and ?Mongol?the picture sets best pattern of successful development of the Kazakhstan film industry. Los-Angeles Weekly called the Kazakh film as brilliant. ?The view on Kazakh shepherds? life is full of eccentric humor, unusual characters and naturalism?, New York Magazine writes.