My Brother Silk Road

My Brother Silk Road

2002 · 80 min · ★ 8.5 · Drama

The Great Silk Road is the name for a mountain trade route now identifiable only by train tracks; it is on these tracks that our film finds four children at play, not far from their Kirghizstan village. A train meanders down the mountain and, following an argument, an artist is unceremoniously thrown-off a carriage and (so) eventually encounters the children.

Directed by Marat Sarulu · Written by Marat Sarulu

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