• Director(s)

    Adilkhan Yerzhanov

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    102m

  • Cast

    Berik Aytzhanov, Anna Starchenko

Film

Steppenwolf

strong violence, bloody images, language, disturbing scenes

STEPPENWOLF is a Kazakh drama thriller in which a vulnerable woman and a former detective find common ground when her son is kidnapped by a crime lord on whom he is seeking revenge.…

STEPPENWOLF is a Kazakh drama thriller in which a vulnerable woman and a former detective find common ground when her son is kidnapped by a crime lord on whom he is seeking revenge.

violence
Strong violence includes shootings, stabbings, beatings with a hammer and the implied slicing of a man's fingers with an electric fan, which produce blood spurts and bloody aftermath injury detail. A man and his family are deliberately immolated in a locked truck, in undetailed fashion.
language
Strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'shit', 'ass', 'jerk', 'hell' and 'Jesus'.
theme
A traumatised woman with learning difficulties is unable to articulate her thoughts to a man from whom she is seeking help; his initial responses are callous and unsympathetic, slapping her face repeatedly, but lightly, and demanding that she speaks clearly. There are references to children being kidnapped for the purposes of harvesting their organs.
additional issues
There is brief sexual threat which an intervention prevents from progressing, and moderate gun threat. Moderate sex references include a comment about a woman having a pimp. There is smoking throughout.

  • Director(s)

    Adilkhan Yerzhanov

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    102m

  • Cast

    Berik Aytzhanov, Anna Starchenko

strong violence, bloody images, language, disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
26/05/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
violence
Strong violence includes shootings, stabbings, beatings with a hammer and the implied slicing of a man's fingers with an electric fan, which produce blood spurts and bloody aftermath injury detail. A man and his family are deliberately immolated in a locked truck, in undetailed fashion.
language
Strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'shit', 'ass', 'jerk', 'hell' and 'Jesus'.
theme
A traumatised woman with learning difficulties is unable to articulate her thoughts to a man from whom she is seeking help; his initial responses are callous and unsympathetic, slapping her face repeatedly, but lightly, and demanding that she speaks clearly. There are references to children being kidnapped for the purposes of harvesting their organs.
additional issues
There is brief sexual threat which an intervention prevents from progressing, and moderate gun threat. Moderate sex references include a comment about a woman having a pimp. There is smoking throughout.

  • Classified date

    26/05/2025

  • Language

    Kazakh