''Whoever Softer'' (russian: Тот, кто нежнее, Tot, kto nezhnee) is a feature film director by Abay Karpykov.

Plot

A young man by the name of Danesh is hospitalized with a broken leg. An old man, his roommate at the hospital ward, tells Danesh about two relics:

tamga A tamga or tamgha (from otk, 𐱃𐰢𐰍𐰀, tamga, lit=stamp, seal; tr, damga; mn, tamga; ; ); an abstract seal or stamp used by Eurasian nomads and by cultures influenced by them. The tamga was normally the emblem of a particular tribe, ...

(gold plate) and a

ruby A ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called ...

. Once a year with their help it is possible to find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. Tamga was brought from abroad by Arab

sheikhs Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

, who are waiting for a messenger from the old man. After the old man's death, his sisters give Danesh the ruby and map of the Canyon and he goes off in search of treasure. Ramazan, a bandit who kidnapped translator Alyona, who can read the

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

inscription on the tamga, becomes Danesh's opponent.

Cast

* Bopesh Jandaev as Danesh * Kseniya Kachalina as Alyona * Nikolay Stotsky as Gosha * Andrei Rostotsky as Ramazan *

Farhat Abdraimov Farhat Nursultanuly AbdraimovBiography and filmography/ref> ( kk, Фархат Нұрсұлтанұлы Әбдірайымов, ''Farhat Nūrsūltanūly Äbdıraiymov''; (21 January 1966 – 21 May 2021) was a Kazakh actor. Biography Fathe ...

as Farhat *

Bolot Beyshenaliyev Bolot Beishenaliev (russian: Болот Бейшеналиев; June 25, 1937 — November 18, 2002) was a Soviet cinematographer, film and theater actor. People's Artist of Kyrgyzstan. Father of actor Aziz Beyshenaliyev. Beyshenaliyev studied a ...

as Sultan Khan Giray * Aristarkh Livanov as Baigali

Critical reception

Sergey Kudryavtsev Sergey Valentinovich Kudryavtsev (russian: Серге́й Валенти́нович Кудря́вцев) is a Russian film critic and historian. He graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1978 and worked in the office of S ...

: One review said that at first, everything is unnecessarily meaningful, full of secrets and omissions. In the history of rivalry between two hard-hearted Kazakh brothers because of someone else's wealth, there is a lot of seriousness and pomposity that is not appropriate; is felt primarily in the behavior of Russian actors Andrei Rostotsky and Aristarkh Livanov. Paradoxically, the debutante

makes a mocking and good-natured element of everything happening in the comic role of a seemingly formidable fat man who has an unexpectedly thin voice and a completely mild temper.3500 кинорецензий
/ref> .

References

External links

* 1996 films Russian drama films Films scored by Leonid Desyatnikov 1996 drama films Kazakhstani drama films 1990s Russian-language films {{Russia-film-stub