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Tulpan(Тюльпан)

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Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany · 2009
1h 40m
Director Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring Askhat Kuchencherekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Tolepbergen Baysakalov, Ondas Besikbasov
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance

Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.

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90

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Might be described as an epic landscape film, a sweetly comic coming-of-age story or a lyrical work of social realism. But the setting -- a windswept, sparely populated steppe in southern Kazakhstan -- gives the movie a mood that sometimes feels closer to that of science fiction.

88

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The acting and story are solid, but the real star of Tulpan is the gorgeous, never-ending landscape -- flat and arid, and home to camels, goats and lambs, and hearty people who live in tentlike yurts.

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