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　　A rope bridge which the locals call "The devil's bridge" forms part of each and every event which takes place in a small village lost in the mountains of the Kyrgyz Republic. A platform driven by a huge winch which the...展开y have to pull with their own strength to cross the torrent is their only link with the outside world. But the director of the documentary wondered something else: "Does this bridge unite or does it actually separate?" Through the mist and over the thrashing waters, the inhabitants of the area glide along their ropes. A film, in the director's own words, about ordinary people who live in an extraordinary place.
　　Temirbek Birnazarov was born in 1964 in Kyrgyz. Graduated in 1993 from the producer's faculty at the Almaty Institute of Theatre and Cinema. Same year, made an award-winning fictional short Don't Cry, Rhinoceros!, which was shown at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, the Vila Do Conde International Short Film Festival, and the Montecatini International Short Film Festival. Films include Devil Bridge/The Devil's Bridge (1996), shown at YIDFF'97 (won the Special Mention award), the narrative film The Melody of Forgotten Island (1997), and Jaiyk (1998), shown at YIDFF'99. In 2002 made The Sun Will Rise Again and Earrings.