'Racketeer' - Kazakh Film Series

The UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater presents a film screening of "Racketeer" as part of the Kazakh Film Series . 

'Racketeer' (2007): Director Akhan Satayev’s timely drama, set in modern Almaty (the former capital city of Kazakhstan) tells a signature story from the traumatic first years of post-Soviet capitalism. Sayan is an average boy and student who excelled at one thing: boxing. When this talent is exploited for money by local criminal figures, Sayan rises quickly through the ranks as an extortionist, realizing only too late that there is no way out. (35mm, color, in Russian and Kazakh with English subtitles, 80 min).