Harmony Lessons
7.3
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.
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Cast
11 people
Timur Aidarbekov
Aslan
Also in
The Wounded Angel
Anelya Adilbekova
Akzhan
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Aslan Anarbayev
Bolat
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Mukhtar Andassov
Mirsain
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Nurdaulet Orazymbetov
Daniyar
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Nursultan Nurbergenov
Maksat
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Omar Adilov
Also in
The Wounded Angel
Adlet Anarbekov
Daulet Anarbekov
Erasyl Nurzhakyp
Asan Mazhit
Shokan
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КОБА
Taraz
Emir Baigazin Director · Aziz Zhambakiev Cinematographer Juliya Levitskaya Production designer
United States release November 12, 2013 · Produced in Kazakhstan, Germany, France · Production Kazakhfilm Studios, The Post Republic
Production
Arizona Films
Production
Kazakhfilm Studios
Production
The Post Republic
Production
Rohfilm
Production
Kazakhstan · Germany · France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Уроки гармонии
Original language
Kazakh
Spoken on screen
Kazakh
Release dates
Kazakhstan · February 6, 2013
Theatrical
United States · November 12, 2013
Premiere · AFI Film Festival
Czechia
June 18, 2013 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
France
March 26, 2014 · Theatrical
Germany
February 14, 2013 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
February 17, 2016 · TV
Greece
September 25, 2013 · Premiere · Athens International Film Festival
Luxembourg
February 28, 2014 · Premiere · Luxembourg City Film Festival
New Zealand
July 24, 2013 · Premiere · New Zealand International Film Festival
Philippines
December 20, 2013 · Premiere · Cinemanila International Film Festival
Poland
October 11, 2013 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
Serbia
November 9, 2013 · Premiere · Free Zone Festival
Sweden
November 16, 2013 · Premiere · Stockholm International Film Festival
Switzerland
August 8, 2013 · Premiere · Locarno Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 10, 2013 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
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