Rent Revenge (1989)
3.7 of 5 from 52 ratings
1h 40min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- A rural school teacher, Jan, murders a pupil, the young daughter of a family under whom he had previously been a tenant. The father, Caj, tracks him to China to exact revenge - but at the moment of vengeance, Caj cannot act. he returns home only to take a concubine, who in turn bears him a son: Sungu, a prodigious composer of verse. At Caj's deathbed, the boy is informed he has been brought into the world purely for the sake of vengeance; he takes an oath to annihilate Jan.
- Actors:
- Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te, Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Oleg Li, Juozas Budraitis, Zinaida Em, Maksim Munzuk, Yerik Zholzhaksynov, Nikolai Tacheyev, Li Kham Dek, Olga Yenzak, Tsoi Ke Suk, Yana Kan, Oleg Fomin, Galina Pak, Gennadi Lyui, Baiten Omarov, Tsoi Ke Bon, Aleksandr Kim
- Directors:
- Ermek Shinarbaev
- Writers:
- Anatoli Kim
- Aka:
- Mest / The Red Flute
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Kazakhstan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/11/2013
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- Kazakh LPCM Mono, Russian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Exclusive New Video Introduction to the Film by Martin Scorsese
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Reviews (1) of Revenge
Payback That Never Really Finishes - Revenge review by griggs
This one shouldn't work as well as it does. Basic setup: a teacher loses it and kills a pupil, so the girl's dad spends years raising a son for a single job — revenge. Nothing complicated about it. Yermek Shinarbayev takes his time getting there, and somehow you don't mind.
What got me is how little that seemed to matter. There's a Tarkovsky feel to the whole thing. It plays out as a string of moods rather than a straight story, each one bleeding into the next, all tied together by a sickle that keeps turning up when you least want it to. It stays close to one family falling apart, but underneath that is the history of Koreans forcibly moved across the Soviet Union. Nobody spells it out. It's just there, in everything.
A couple of the middle sections feel like padding before it finds its footing again, and it wants patience over plot. Worth it, though. It's cold, it's gorgeous, and it stays with you long after — payback that never really finishes.
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