Highway

Sergey Dvortsevoy / France, Germany, Kazakhstan / 1999 / Czech Premiere / 57 min.

synopsis

In this film, Dvortsevoy focuses his ethnographic lens on the Kazakh steppe and an eight-member Uyghur circus family traveling, tightly packed, in an old bus. The camera captures their nomadic life from up close during the long journey of thousands of kilometers. We see a woman, a man, and their six children aged from one to sixteen years during preparations for performances in the villages they pass through, even during everyday regular tasks and moments of rest, revealing what holds the family together despite occasional disputes.