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Student(Студент)

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Kazakhstan · 2012
1h 32m
Director Darezhan Omirbayev
Starring Nurlan Baitasov, Maya Serikbayeva, Edige Bolysbayev, Daniyar Bazarkulov
Genre Drama

Student is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment set in Kazakhstan. It follows a nameless, solitary student that commits a crime of senseless violence in an attempt to change his directionless life. But instead of fulfillment, he finds himself wracked with guilt and depression.

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Slant Magazine by

Kazakh cinema's stalwart auteur Darzhan Omirbaev adapts Crime and Punishment to modern-day Almaty, but with little to say beyond the obvious.

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Time Out by David Fear

A sense of existential dread that would make the Russkie novelist beam is channeled beautifully, but for a filmmaker lauded for his minimalist aesthetic, Omirbayev sure loves broad-stroke symbolism and sloganeering.

70

Variety by Leslie Felperin

There’s much to admire in the film’s elegantly classical tempo and the way Omirbayev achieves so much with so little.

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The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

It’s the no-nonsense filmmaking, seamlessly integrating even dreams and visions, that keeps us fixed on the bold line of the student’s trajectory, all the way through to a transcendent ending.

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