Performer：Nurlybek Saktaganov Madiyar Aripbay Madiyar Nazarov Omar Adilov Anzara Barlykova
Director：Emile Bagazin
Synopsis： the film describes the path of life of four young people in kazakhstan town in the 1990s. zaharas was suffering from a father who could not find a job because he had been a fraud and had to work in a corn factory to help him. barapán had a good voice to sing “maria maría maría”, but school life taught him to use his fist rather than his voice. zahaba was in a dump in the village looking for scrap metal that could be sold and slept in abandoned tunnels with three other boys of his age who had left their homes. aslan was working on medicine, yet when he persuaded his girlfriend to abort, his personality changed completely. A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy takes on casual work at a corn merchant’s. Balapan can sing ‘Ave Maria’ as clear as a bell but his schoolmates provoke him into using his fists rather than his voice. Zhaba roams about the village ruins looking for waste metal he can sell. He comes across three bedraggled boys of his own age who have run away from a nearby home and are sleeping in a derelict tunnel. Aslan is about to take up studies in medicine but, after having persuaded his girlfriend to have an abortion, he undergoes a complete change in personality. After scoring a hit with his first film Harmony Lessons, which screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, Emir Baigazin’s new work The Wounded Angel describes the mood of teenagers growing up in a time of great upheaval. The film marks the second part of a visually stunning trilogy about young people and their complex relationships in a world without a moral yardstick. berlinale 2016
