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Published: 12 November 2009

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TULPAN

TULPAN, a Cannes festival award-winner last year made by Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy, is released this week.
Life in the Russian navy is not exactly an easy nine-to-five – but for former sailor Asa, things don’t get any easier as he returns from completing his national service to his homeland on the Kazakhstan steppes where his family live in a yurt, and the nearest eligible female is a good trek away.
We are taken to windswept Russian borders as we follow Asa’s attempts to carve himself a life out of a harsh and lonely environment, where relationships with family and friends take on added significance as there are simply not a lot of humans about.
We learn that before Asa can settle down as a shepherd in this dramatic landscape, he must find himself a bride – which means courting the only possible option, his neighbour Tulpan.
Asa sets out to showcase his strengths as a potential husband and sheep-tender to her family, offering up a mix of comedy, vistas and some super-cute lambs.

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