Paradise (1995)
Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
| Writing | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Writer |
| Camera | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Director of Photography |
| Art | Gennadiy Popov | Production Design |
| Crew | Boris Trochev | Cinematography |
| Editing | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Editor |
| Crew | Marat Tokhtabakiyev | Cinematography |
| Directing | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Director |
| Production | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Producer |
| Camera | Gennadiy Popov | Director of Photography |
