The Hunter
Movie| Title | Okhotnik |
| User score | 5.1 |
| Release date | Aug 9, 2004 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Serik Aprimov |
| Production country | France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland |
| Production companies | NHK, East Cinema |
| Run time | 93 min. |
In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains, Erken, a boy of 12, lives with his mother, a beautiful and alluring single woman. One night, when the mother is visited by a hunter, Erken steals the latters horse and his gun to hold up a shop. Sought by the police, he is found by the hunter who gives him a choice: to go to prison or to go and live with him in the mountains. Thus begins a voyage of initiation, in the course of which the hunter tries to pass on his taste for and understanding of life.
