Whoever Softer

Whoever Softer (Russian: Тот, кто нежнее, romanized: Tot, kto nezhnee) is a feature film director by Abay Karpykov.^[2][3]

Whoever Softer
Directed by	Abay Karpykov
Written by	Abay Karpykov Leila Ahinzhanova
Produced by	Andrey Razumovsky Yury Romanenko Serik Zhubandykov Anar Kashaganova Oraz Rymzhanov
Starring	Bopesh Jandaev Kseniya Kachalina
Cinematography	Nikolay Kirienkov Aleksey Berkovich George Gidt
Music by	Leonid Desyatnikov
Production companies	Kazakhfilm RusComKino
Release date	1996 (1996) [1]
Running time	92 min
Countries	Kazakhstan Russia
Language	Russian

Plot

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.

Cast

• Bopesh Jandaev as Danesh^[4]
• Kseniya Kachalina as Alyona
• Nikolay Stotsky as Gosha
• Andrei Rostotsky as Ramazan
• Farhat Abdraimov as Farhat
• Bolot Beyshenaliyev as Sultan Khan Giray
• Aristarkh Livanov as Baigali

Critical reception

• Sergey Kudryavtsev:

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]