Ulzhan

• Philippe Torreton: Charles
• Ayanat Ksenbai: Ulzhan
• David Bennents: Shakuni

Ulzhan - The Forgotten Light is a film by German film director Volker Schlöndorff from the year 2007.

Action

Charles ' goal is the sacred mountain Khan Tengri in Kazakhstan, where once withdrew the shaman alone to die. Looking after he meets one day a mysterious figure, a shaman named Sakuni, who deals in rare words. Random Charles ends up in a village where he meets the young nomad Ulzhan, from which he buys a horse to continue on his way. Against the will of Charles, the young woman pinned to his heels, following the scarred by man of destiny through barren steppe, nuclear contaminated nuclear test area, endless oil fields where oil derricks as portent rise to the sky to the Holy Mountain on the border with China. In the mountains arrived, Charles asks his companion one last time was definitively to leave him alone. Ulzhan it followed hesitantly, but returns shortly once more and ties his horse to a rock in the hope that Charles will come back. While she rides without looking back finally to the valley, he climbs higher and finally lies down in the snow. As he turns his head to the side, he sees his horse grazing alone.

Reviews

" Stylized film as a hymn to life, which offers intensive landscapes, atmospheric music and metaphorically charged location, the desired lightness occasionally suffers from formal artistic taste. "

" Ulzhan ' is not one of those films that you consume loosely between two hamburgers, but throws barbs and requires attention. And worth it. The biggest plus in this silent battle between a disillusioned man and a courageous woman are the fascinating CinemaScope images by cinematographer Thomas ferryman, the temptations of the documentary opposite appears resistant. The result: a poetic odyssey in mental intermediate areas ".

" A meditative journey into the heart of a captivating country and into the interior of a fascinating man. An archaic, poetic, almost wordless love story. And a beautiful ode to life. "

" Ulzhan ' is an archaic fairy tale basically. A meditation. A despite all melancholy comforting movie Schlöndorff, ironically, now can look at themselves in order to draw courage again. "