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The Plague at the Karatas Village (2016)

The Plague at the Karatas Village poster
Original title
Қаратас ауылындағы оба
Directed by
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Genre
drama film, fantasy film
Country
Kazakhstan
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
8.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A remote Kazakh village faces a mysterious illness that begins to spread among its inhabitants. The film follows the community as they struggle with the escalating crisis and their own isolation.

bleakslow-burntragicatmosphericvisually grimunsettlinggrittyfatalistic

What happens

The Plague at the Karatas Village (Russian: Чума в ауле Каратас) is a 2016 Kazakh film directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov. The film is part of the Kazakh Partisan Cinema, a guerrilla filmmaking movement that aims to work without any governmental interference. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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