Schizo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gulshad Omarova
Olzhas Nusuppaev
Eduard Tabyschev
Olga Landina
Bakhytbek Baymukhanbetov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Mustafa, or "Schizo," a boy not quite 15 years old, becomes caught up in sordid adult dealings, and must struggle to maintain his sense of beauty and right as he develops the expertise and thick skin of a true player. Growing up in the destitute early '90s Kazakhstan, and nicknamed "Schizo" for his eccentric behavior in school, the young man lives an unrewarding home life in early-'90s Kazakhstan with his single mother and her boyfriend Sakura (a small-time hood). The makeshift family is poor, and the adults pay little attention to Schizo's prospects, except that Sakura offers Schizo a role in his own income scheme: procuring other men who will agree to fight in an underground and illegal boxing syndicate. The men will vie for money and cars, but few will ever win, and some are horribly injured. Already toughened by life, Schizo takes to this work with zeal, happy to have a little spending money. But he is taken aback when one recruit--a young man named Ali--dies after his boxing match, entrusting a small amount of money to Schizo, to be delivered to Ali's girlfriend Zina. Feeling a faint sympathy for the dead Ali, Schizo finds Zina, a somewhat older woman, living in a small hovel on the outskirts of his town. Also living there is someone Ali never mentioned: his young son Sanzhik, a mere toddler who finds the new, teenage stranger intriguing.
Director
Gulshad Omarova
Cast
Olzhas Nusuppaev
Eduard Tabyschev
Olga Landina
Bakhytbek Baymukhanbetov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Gulnara Jeralieva
Kanagat Nurtay
Zhurabek Musbaev
Gairatzhan Tokhgibakiev
Crew
Talgat Asyrankoulov
Talgat Asyrankulov
Sergey Azimov
Alya Berjanova
Sergei Bodrov
Sergei Bodrov
Julien Cloquet
Hasanbek Kidiraliev
Ivan Lebedev
Gulshad Omarova
Sergei Selyanov
Andrey Vlaznev
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States April 1, 2005
Released in United States May 2004
Released in United States on Video September 13, 2005
Released in United States Spring March 18, 2005
Shown at Cannes Film Festival May 15 - 25, 2004.
Released in United States Spring March 18, 2005
Released in United States April 1, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States May 2004 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival May 15 - 25, 2004.)
Released in United States on Video September 13, 2005
