Synopsis
On the road, in the middle of the dry steppe of Kazahkstan, a sign: Moscow, 2 300 km. A long-distance truck driver added, by hand: the road to hell. A bus appears on the horizon. Through the dusty windows, the faces of the children are black of sweat and grime. Behind the bus, a cloud of dust extends over more than a kilometer. Smothering heat. In the bus, a family of travellers. With their six children, they have formed a small itinerant circus and give their show to the long-distance truck drivers who stop at the sheds by the roadside. This movie is a chronicle of places and people who will quickly disappear. Beauty and mystery of the everyday life. Nothing extraordinary but simply a movie about life, about the right to have happiness.
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Dune
- Co-production : Leapfrog Production
- Foreign production company : ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- French distribution : Héliotrope Films
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Ève Vercel
- Director of Photography : Alisher Khamidkhodjaev
- Editor : Sergueï Dvortsevoï
- Sound recordists : Sergueï Dvortsevoï, Gulsara Mukataeva
- Co-producer : Chantal Bernheim
- French Distributor : Jean-François Aurenty
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Legend
- Themes : Ethnography, Family
- Production language : Kazakh
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 2002
- Runtime : 52 min
- Visa number : 101.479
- Visa issue date : 15/01/2002
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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