''Student'' (, ''Stýdent'') is a 2012 Kazakhstani
drama film
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directed by
Darezhan Omirbaev
Darezhan Omirbaev (, ''Darejan Omırbaev''; born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh film director and screenwriter.
Work
Omirbaev has directed nine films since 1982; six features, one medium length digital film, and three shorts. His second short, ''Shi ...
. It is an adaptation of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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's 1866 novel ''
Crime and Punishment
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The film competed in the
Un Certain Regard
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section at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
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.
Reception
''Student'' has an approval rating of 67% on
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, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10.
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assigned the film a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Leslie Felperin of ''
Variety
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'' wrote: "As he did with ''
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'', Omirbayev once again offers a quietly scathing portrait of his homeland, which, on the evidence here, is on the verge of losing its soul in the pursuit of Range Rovers, banal soap operas and other ephemeral pleasures. ...
ere's much to admire in the film's elegantly classical tempo and the way Omirbayev achieves so much with so little
References
External links
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2012 films
2012 drama films
Kazakhstani drama films
Kazakh-language films
Films based on Crime and Punishment
Films directed by Darezhan Omirbaev
Kazakhfilm films
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