Student

Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, the film is set in modern-day Kazakhstan. A philosophy student at Almaty University rents a room from a great-aunt on the edge of the city and suffers from loneliness and lack of money there. He is surrounded by an atmosphere of poverty and an ideology of total competition, where people are divided into poor and rich, strong and weak. Little by little, the idea of ​​challenging himself and robbing the grocery store, where he has sometimes gone to buy bread, sprouts in his head. DOSTOYEVSKINO November marked 203 years since the birth of one of the greatest writers in the history of mankind, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and 158 years have passed since the publication of the world-famous novel "Crime and Punishment" and 156 years have passed since the publication of "The Idiot", perhaps the most characteristic of Dostoevsky's works. In addition to the fact that Dostoevsky's works are among the most read, he can also be called one of the most filmed writers. In terms of the number of screen adaptations, he is in the top three among classics. That's why we celebrate Dostoevsky's work with the DOSTOJEVSKINO program, in which films from Finland, Kazakhstan, Japan, Russia and Estonia based on "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot" will be screened. Akira Kurosawa's "Idiot" (Japan, 1951), Aki Kaurismäki's "Crime and Punishment" (Finland, 1983), "Crime and Punishment" by Lev Kulidzhanov (USSR, 1969), "Student" by Darežan Omirbayev (Kazakhstan. 2012) "Idiot" by Rainer Sarnet (Estonia, 2011) and Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple by Takuya Igarashi (Japan, 2018).