The Hunter

The Hunter

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 9, 2004

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama

User Score

51%

Original Title

Okhotnik

Production Companies

NHK, East Cinema

Director

Serik Aprimov

Description

In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains, Erken, a boy of 12, lives with his mother, a beautiful and alluring single woman. One night, when the mother is visited by a hunter, Erken steals the latters horse and his gun to hold up a shop. Sought by the police, he is found by the hunter who gives him a choice: to go to prison or to go and live with him in the mountains. Thus begins a voyage of initiation, in the course of which the hunter tries to pass on his taste for and understanding of life.