Whoever Softer

1996 Kazakh film

1996 (1996)

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Running time

92 minCountriesKazakhstan
RussiaLanguageRussian

Whoever Softer (Russian: Тот, кто нежнее, romanized: Tot, kto nezhnee) is a feature film director by Abay Karpykov.^[2]^[3]

Plot

A young man by the name of Danesh is hospitalized with a broken leg. An old man, his roommate at the hospital ward, tells Danesh about two relics: tamga (gold plate) and a ruby. Once a year with their help it is possible to find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. Tamga was brought from abroad by Arab sheikhs, who are waiting for a messenger from the old man. After the old man's death, his sisters give Danesh the ruby and map of the Canyon and he goes off in search of treasure. Ramazan, a bandit who kidnapped translator Alyona, who can read the Arabic inscription on the tamga, becomes Danesh's opponent.

Cast

Bopesh Jandaev as Danesh^[4]
Kseniya Kachalina as Alyona
Nikolay Stotsky as Gosha
Andrei Rostotsky as Ramazan
Farhat Abdraimov as Farhat
Bolot Beyshenaliyev as Sultan Khan Giray
Aristarkh Livanov as Baigali

Critical reception

Sergey Kudryavtsev:

One review said that at first, everything is unnecessarily meaningful, full of secrets and omissions. In the history of rivalry between two hard-hearted Kazakh brothers because of someone else's wealth, there is a lot of seriousness and pomposity that is not appropriate; is felt primarily in the behavior of Russian actors Andrei Rostotsky and Aristarkh Livanov. Paradoxically, the debutante Farhat Abdraimov makes a mocking and good-natured element of everything happening in the comic role of a seemingly formidable fat man who has an unexpectedly thin voice and a completely mild temper.^[5] .