According to tradition and her mother-in-law’s demand, Jaukhaz, a young woman, leaves her father’s home. Despite her lack of feelings for her husband, she decides not to break away with tradition. Jaukhaz lives with her husband and his parents in a remote settlement. They graze the herds of the kolkhoz. Theirs is the shepherds’ austere and monotonous life: they have to feed the cattle ans sometimes, when the sun shines through, the cows have to be taken to pastures. Winter is silent, even frightening. One day, Jaukhaz finds true love. She realises how difficult it is to live both according to tradition and to one’s own feelings…
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Footsteps Disappear on the Horizon
(Sledy ukhodiat za gorizont)
- Kazakhstan
- 1965
- Fiction
- Noir & Blanc
- 90′
- Titre français
Les Empreintes se perdent à l’horizon - Original title
Sledy ukhodiat za gorizont - Titre international
Footsteps Disappear on the Horizon - Scénario
A. Tarazi - Photo
A. Achrapov - Son
K. Kusaev - Musique
E. Khagagortian - Interprétation
F. Charipova, A. Achimov, K. Abdraimov, K. Kenjetaev, Kh. Bukeeva - Production
Kazakhfilm - Support de projection
35 mm - Sous-titrage
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