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Title Svet-ake = The light thief / the Match Factory ; Oy Art [and others] ; in co-production with ZDF/ARTE ; director, Aktan Arym Kubat ; writer, Aktan Arym Kubat ; producers, Altynai Koichumanova and five others
Published San Francisco : Global Lens, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (76 min., 1 video file)
Series Global lens collection
New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present
Global lens collection.
Summary In this colorful modern-day parable of good and evil, a humble village electrician devotes his compassion and ingenuity to destitute neighbors in a wind-swept valley of Kyrgyzstan. Played with wry humanity by writer-director Aktan Arym Kubat, the trusting Mr. Light strikes a suspect bargain with a rich developer running for local office, as unemployment threatens the survival of the community. Stoking a dream to supply wind-generated electricity to the whole valley, the modest visionary comes up against an increasingly dark cloud of corruption in this affecting tale of solidarity and ordinary decency amid the injustices and hardships of a changing world
Notes Originally produced as a motion picture 2010
Credits Director of photography, Khassan Kydyraliyev; editor, Petar Markovic; music, Andre Matthias
Cast Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov, Asan Amanov, Stanbek Toichubaev
Notes In Kyrgyz with English subtitles
Videodisc version; title from title screen (viewed November 24, 2014)
Nominated 2011 Asian Film Awards, Best Cinematographer; Nominated 2011 Hong Kong International Film Festival, SIGNIS Award; Nominated 2011 Nika Awards, Best Film of the CIS and Baltics; Won 2010 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Netpac Award
Subject Electricians -- Kyrgyzstan -- Drama
Political corruption -- Kyrgyzstan -- Drama
Community life -- Kyrgyzstan -- Drama
Community life.
Electricians.
Political corruption.
Kyrgyzstan.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Feature films.
Drama.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films
Foreign language films
Vidéos sur Internet.
Films de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Kubat, Aktan Arym, screenwriter, film director, actor
Baschet, Marc, film producer
Baumgartner, Karl, film producer
Karathanos, Thanassis, film producer
Koichumanova, Altynai, film producer
Kolar, Čedomir, 1949- film producer.
Vaslin, Denis, film producer
Abazova, Taalaikan, actor
Sulaimanov, Askat, actor
Matthias, Andre, composer (expression)
Abdieva, Inara, costume designer
Match Factory (Firm)
Oy Art (Firm)
ZDF/Arte (Firm)
Other Titles Light thief
Global Lens 2011. [Disc 4], Svet-ake
Global Lens 2011. [Disc 4], Svet-ake
Global Lens 2011. [Disc 4], Svet-ake