Director Aktan Arym Kubat casts himself in the title role of The Light Thief (2010), an electrician nicknamed Svet-Ake (‘Mr Light’). Svet-Ake feels it his duty to ensure that all of his neighbours in his village in Kyrgyzstan have access to electric lighting. He helps those too poor to afford electricity by fiddling with their meters, and thus steals light for them. In his spare time, Svet-Ake experiments with wind power, and dreams of setting up giant turbines at the mouth of the local river in order to supply the whole village with affordable energy.
Bekzat (Taalaikan Abazova), a former villager who made his fortune in the city, is the only one who seems to take Svet-Ake’s wind turbine plan seriously. If Svet-Ake agrees to work for him, Bekzat promises to make his plan a reality. The businessman has returned to the village with a plan of his own: to...
Bekzat (Taalaikan Abazova), a former villager who made his fortune in the city, is the only one who seems to take Svet-Ake’s wind turbine plan seriously. If Svet-Ake agrees to work for him, Bekzat promises to make his plan a reality. The businessman has returned to the village with a plan of his own: to...
- 8/9/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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- 7/29/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
#18. The Light Thief Director: Aktan AbdykalykovCast: Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov, Asan Amanov, Stanbek Toichubaev Distributor: Rights Available. Buzz:It played at Cannes this year and was probably sprinkled at several other fests such as Locarno, I'm looking at Abdykalykov's film much in the same way I think about films like Tulpin and Turtles Can Fly -- films that transport Western audiences into foreign lands, unknown scapes and uncommon human interactions. The Gist: A funny and touching portrait of small-town politics in a rapidly globalizing world that follows Svet-ake, an electrician in a small Kyrgyz village who has been stealing electricity to help the impoverished local residents. When Bekzat, a wealthy land developer and former villager arrives to buy up the land for a group of Chinese investors, Svet-ake shares with him his dream to populate the valley with modern windmills—but soon Svet-ake realizes that not everyone has...
- 9/8/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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