The film’s protagonist, Ahmet, was tending sheep high in the mountains when a merciless mudflow destroyed his house, taking with it all his family and friends. And Ahmet leaves his home, for the first time in his 30-year-long life, for faraway Moscow in search of his only surviving cousin. On his way he meets different people… The train conductor takes him under her wardship, instructing him about life in the city of which he has no idea whatsoever. Though he’s lost his bearing in this world, Ahmet is charging people who more fortunate than himself with his kindness and joi de vivre.
The shooting took place in Alagir Canyon, next to Karmadon Canyon where Sergey
Bodrov’s production group had perished.
Yaropolk Lapshin had completed shooting two days before the Karmadon tragedy.


Awards:
* Le VI-e Festival International des films policiers «La loi et la société» - vainqueur dans la nomination «Crime et châtiment», 2004

Special features:
* Commentary by director Ya. Lapshin
* Filmographies
* Making of…
* Stills from the film
* Coming soon on DVD

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Film Yaropolka Lapshina. Geroy filma Ahmet pas ovets vysoko v gorah, kogda besposhchadnyy sel unichtozhil ego dom, unes vseh rodnyh i blizkih. I Ahmet vpervye za 30 let svoey zhizni uezzhaet daleko ot doma - v Moskvu, na poiski edinstvennogo blizkogo cheloveka - dvoyurodnogo brata. Po doroge on vstrechaet raznyh lyudey... Provodnitsa poezda beret nad nim shefstvo, uchit gorodskoy zhizni, o kotoroy Ahmet ne imel ni maleyshego predstavleniya. Poteryavshiy oporu v zhizni, Ahmet zaryazhaet svoey dobrotoy i zhiznennoy energiey lyudey bolee ustroennyh, chem on sam. Semki prohodili v Alagirskom ushchele, ryadom s Karmadonskim, gde pogibla semochnaya gruppa Sergeya Bodrova. Yaropolk Lapshin zavershil semki za paru dney do tragedii v Karmadonskom ushchele.

Bonus - trek:
* Kommentariy rezhissera Ya. Lapshina
* Filmografii
* Fotoalbom

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