The Plague at the Karatas Village (2016)

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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.