Dersu Uzala
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one...
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Follows the party worker who gave up his own child, and a young woman who left her baby in the garbage. After 19 years, it can be seen that the...
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White Mountains
Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing, he,...
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Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It...
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Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city. When his youngest son pays him...
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Based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel "Farewell, Gyulsary!" The story of Tanabai the blacksmith, father of three children, who upon his return from war...
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Feature made for Kyrgyz television by Melis Ubukeyev (White Mountains).
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Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border.
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About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.
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Amateur
After a serious conflict with the editor of a local newspaper, journalist Temir Ataev began working as a teacher at a boarding school for children...
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Adyl Sultanov is accused of involvement in a department store robbery case. The hero, confident in his innocence, nevertheless does not immediately...
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The end of the 1920s — the beginning of the 1930s in Kyrgyzstan. Parts of the Red Army are waging an uncompromising struggle with basmachi in...
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The Shelter for Majors
Youth of Dzhambul
About the great akyn of the Kazakh steppes of Dzhambul (1846-1945).
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"Worship the Fire" is a 1972 feature by Tolomush Okeev.
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Ulan follows a sailor whose marriage disintegrates and longs for his younger days on horseback
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