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The film legends Volker Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière have made a number of award-winning films together, among others The Tin Drum, which won both an Oscar and the Golden Palm. Ulzhan is closer to Schlöndorff’s Homo Faber and shows a Frenchman’s attempt to exorcise his own demons at the end of the world. The tight-lipped Charles is a driven man with his sights squarely set on a goal that only he himself knows, and he now throws himself resolutely into an adventure. When his car breaks down in Kazakhstan, he simply continues on foot. On the way, he bumps into a bunch of colourful characters - among others a shopkeeper who sells words, and a beautiful young local girl, Ulzhan. In this existentialist road movie he proceeds through a mysterious landscape, where old nomad customs in an environment of radioactive zones and abandoned prison camps. The gripping and magnificent images make the film a memorable and evocative journey.
Jean-Claude Carrière (1931- )
Belle du jour, The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cyrano de Bergerac – powerful and popular moments in film history that span a whole generation, but who knows the man who has written the screenplays? Jean-Claude Carrière has written the screenplays for more than 130 films, and especially his literary adaptations have earned him recognition. He was born in France in 1931 and began writing for Pierre Etaix. Together with Etaix, he won an Oscar in 1963 for best live action short film, and the year after, Carrière worked for the first time together with Luis Buñuel, on Diary of a Chamber Maid. This was the start of a fruitful and life-long collaboration, which, among other awards, earned Carrière two Oscar nominations for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). But he also found time to work together with many other of the greatest directors of his time, such as Milos Forman, Volker Schlöndorff, Louis Malle, Andrzej Wajda, Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima and the Danish director Henning Carlsen, on Oviri in 1986. More recently, Carrière has among other things written the screenplay for Goya’s Ghosts, directed by Milos Forman.
Jean-Claude Carrière will hold a master class about his work on Wednesday, 26 September, and the same evening – in conjunction with the screening of Volker Schlöndorff’s latest film Ulzhan – Copenhagen International Film Festival will present him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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26/9 Metropol - 21.3027/9 Park Bio - 21.30Ikke i dansk biografdistribution
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Cinematography:
Tom Fährmann
Cast:
Philippe Torreton, David Bennent, Ayanat Ksenbai, Vladimir Aryskin, Marek Brodski
Production:
Fly Times Pictures, Volksfilm, Kazakhfilm National Company
Worldsales:
Rezo Films
Country:
Frankrig/Tyskland/Kazakhstan
Language:
Fransk/Kasakhisk
Subtitles:
Engelsk
Year:
2007
Duration:
105
Section: Tributes
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