Student

Program Running Time 92 min.

Films in Program

(Studyent)
Directed By: Darezhan Omirbayev
(Kazakhstan, 2012, 92 mins, Digital Betacam)

Kazakhstan’s Darezhan Omirbayev (Killer, The Road) returns with this mesmerizing take on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, set in modern-day Almaty. "Student unspools a stark, Bressonian tale of a young man who commits an almost random act of murder… Omirbayev once again offers a quietly scathing portrait of his homeland."—Variety