All That Glitters
8.3
At first glance, time seems to have stood still in the west Kyrgyz village of Barskon. Veterans of the Second World War enjoy the greatest respect and many of the people here look back with nostalgia at the socialist era, when everyone had work, healthcare was free and "we all had it just as good". The gulags seem to be the only thing the locals have somehow forgotten about… One of the protagonists in the film is the slightly mysterious truck driver Nurbek, who has been working with his wife for 10 years in the local gold mine known as Kumtor. This is the place where the director Tomáš Kudrna faithfully documents the peculiar form of capitalism and democracy that prevails in a country that looks like an open-air Soviet museum. We see the petty disputes between the locals and also look at the events of 1998, when two tonnes of cyanide leaked into the river from the Kumtor mine and poisoned hundreds of villagers.
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Tomáš Kudrna Director · Joe Bini Screenplay Mark degli Antoni Composer
First release March 13, 2010 · Produced in Czechia, Kyrgyzstan · Original title Mlčeti zlato
Production
Armada Films
Production
Czechia · Kyrgyzstan
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Original title
Mlčeti zlato
Original language
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · March 13, 2010
Premiere · One World Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
February 3, 2011 · TV · ČT2
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