| Whoever Softer | |
| Director: | Abay Karpykov |
| Producer: | Andrey Razumovsky Yury Romanenko Serik Zhubandykov Anar Kashaganova Oraz Rymzhanov |
| Starring: | Bopesh Jandaev Kseniya Kachalina |
| Music: | Leonid Desyatnikov |
| Cinematography: | Nikolay Kirienkov Aleksey Berkovich George Gidt |
| Studio: | Kazakhfilm RusComKino |
| Released: | [1] |
| Runtime: | 92 min |
| Country: | Kazakhstan Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
Whoever Softer (Russian: Тот, кто нежнее|Tot, kto nezhnee) is a feature film director by Abay Karpykov.[2] [3]
A young man by the name of Danesh is hospitalized with a broken leg. An old man, his roommate at the hospital ward, tells Danesh about two relics: tamga (gold plate) and a ruby. Once a year with their help it is possible to find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. Tamga was brought from abroad by Arab sheikhs, who are waiting for a messenger from the old man. After the old man's death, his sisters give Danesh the ruby and map of the Canyon and he goes off in search of treasure. Ramazan, a bandit who kidnapped translator Alyona, who can read the Arabic inscription on the tamga, becomes Danesh's opponent.
One review said that at first, everything is unnecessarily meaningful, full of secrets and omissions. In the history of rivalry between two hard-hearted Kazakh brothers because of someone else's wealth, there is a lot of seriousness and pomposity that is not appropriate; is felt primarily in the behavior of Russian actors Andrei Rostotsky and Aristarkh Livanov. Paradoxically, the debutante Farhat Abdraimov makes a mocking and good-natured element of everything happening in the comic role of a seemingly formidable fat man who has an unexpectedly thin voice and a completely mild temper.[5] .