
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Kazakh documentarian Segei Dvortsevoy won the prix Un Certain Regard for this his first feature
- an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie As comic as it is awe-inspiring Tulpan is set in the vast emptiness of southern Kazakhstan&s Hunger Steppe Having completed his miltary service a young nomad named Asa returns home to his brother-in-law&s yurt with hopes of becoming a shepherd But is such a a life any longer possible in the moder world? First Asa must wind the affections of his beautiful neighbour Tulpan Dvortsevoy gives us the bleak beauty of the steppe&s windswept landscape the endless sky the camel stampedes the raucous behaviour of a reggae-loving teamster & one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes ever captured on film