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  • 2005
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2005
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
Fifty-Fifty

Summary Austere direction, stark imagery and magnificent performances combine in a memorable portrait of a vulnerable and humane young man, blossoming in the toxic soil of a devastated country. This beautiful and moving feature, set in modern-day Kazakhstan, depicts the hard choices a young man makes when he's caught between poverty, crime and ...

Directed By: Gulshat Omarova

Written By: Sergei Bodrov, Gulshat Omarova

  • 2005
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2005
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m

Fifty-Fifty

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Austere direction, stark imagery and magnificent performances combine in a memorable portrait of a vulnerable and humane young man, blossoming in the toxic soil of a devastated country. This beautiful and moving feature, set in modern-day Kazakhstan, depicts the hard choices a young man makes when he's caught between poverty, crime and ...

Directed By: Gulshat Omarova

Written By: Sergei Bodrov, Gulshat Omarova

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
10 Reviews
41% Mixed
7 Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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41% Mixed
7 Reviews
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A stunning drama from that remote former Soviet republic.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
75
Schizo offers not just the proverbial window into village life in Kazakhstan, but a panoramic view.
By Ruthe Stein FULL REVIEW
75
True to its title, Schizo is both gripped by the past and pulled toward an unknown future.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
It's a gripping, understated thriller with a solid emotional undercurrent that builds to an unexpectedly moving denouement.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
If one discounts the facile and unconvincing ending, this first feature by Guka Omarova, offers a convincingly bleak view of how a 15-year-old boy could get ahead in rural Kazakhstan in the early 90s.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
50
Schizo is an earnest also-ran, sadly muffled by the opaque performance of non-actor Oldzhas Nusupbayev.
By David Chute FULL REVIEW
40
A compelling screenplay, to be certain. But sadly, Omarova's direction is too leisurely to wring any emotional power.
By Phil Hall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company CTB Film Company, Kazakhfilm Studios, Les Petites Lumieres, Kinofabrika
Release Date Mar 18, 2005
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Tagline V boyakh bez pravil net pravila "do pervoy krovi"! (In fights without rules, there is no rule that says: "Until first blood"!)
Website http://www.ctb.ru/base/films?oid=54
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Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Copenhagen International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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