Revenge
A child is raised in Korea to avenge the death of his father’s first child in this decades-spanning tale of obsession and violence, the third collaboration between director Ermek Shinarbaev and writer Anatoli Kim. A study of everyday evil infused with philosophy and poetry, this haunting allegory was the first Soviet film to look at the Korean diaspora in central Asia, and a founding work of the Kazakh New Wave. Rigorous and complex, Revenge weaves luminous imagery with inventive narrative elements in an unforgettable meditation on the way trauma is passed down through generations.
Revenge was restored in 2010 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Kazakhfilm Studio, the State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Ermek Shinarbaev. Restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Aleksandr Pan
- Sungu, the poet
- Valentina Tyo
- Wife of Yan
- Kasym Zhakibayev
- Old Tsai
- Lyubov Germanova
- Elza, the Romanian
- Oleg Li
- Old king and old monk
- Yerik Zholzhaksynov
- Young king
- Juozas Budraitis
- Tall dumb guy
- Peter Jan
- Young Sungu
- Zinaida Em
- Mother of Sungu
- Maksim Munzuk
- Old Yan
- Nikolai Tacheyev
- Young Yan, teacher
- Li Kham Dek
- Old woman in final scene
- Tsoi Ke Suk
- Old woman in final scene
- Olga Yenzak
- Old widow of Yan
- Yana Kan
- Daughter of Tsai
- Oleg Fomin
- Leshka, friend of Sungu
- Galina Pak
- Old wife of Tsai
- Gennadi Lyui
- Young monk
- Baiten Omarov
- Mr. Gu, moneylender
Credits
- Director
- Ermek Shinarbaev
- Screenplay by
- Anatoli Kim
- Based on a novel by
- Anatoli Kim
- Music
- Vladislav Shut
- Cinematography
- Sergei Kosmanev
- Editing
- Polina Shtain
- Production design
- Yelena Yeliseyeva
- Costume design
- Yelena Svavilnaya
- Special effects
- Albert Rudachenko
- Special effects
- Viktor Zhanov
- Conductor
- Emin Khachaturyan
- Sound
- Gulsara Mukataeva
A scene from Revenge
