A balcony holds 30 years of Soviet secrets, and one surgeon's guilt.
A surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their refuge.
Direction
Salykov's restrained hand lets silence scream louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
The Alma-Ata streets feel lived-in, dusty with nostalgia and dread.
Director
Kalykbek Salykov
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