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Aidar and Galiya have long been in love with each other. Aidar works as a horse breeder, and Galiya is a senior herdswoman at a collective farm stud farm. One day, due to an accidental misunderstanding, the young people quarrel. Angarbay, the store manager, who is also in love with Galiya, is trying to take advantage of this.
Jun 1955
Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh nation had its own Khan and each tried to supersede the other. The love story of Tolegen, the brave warrior, and the beauty Zhibek ends tragically because of inter-family strife. Tolegen is foully murdered by Bekejan (the batyr, or nobleman, of the rival family), who earlier strived for the hand of Zhibek. Zhibek commits suicide after learning about the death of Tolegen.
Aug 1972
A film based on the Kazakh epic poem of the XIII-XIV century. The film tells about the founders of Sarybay and Karabay, who, due to circumstances, violate the oath given to each other to seal their blood-tied friendship. However, their children Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu develop mutual feelings.
May 1954
Girl Aya arrives at the sanatorium, and slowly sinking into the interweaving of complex human relationships, taking a pain and suffering of patients and separated people.
Jun 1989
Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
Feb 1989
A family of collective farmers arrives in Kazakhstan. The husband, who had persuaded his wife to come in search of an easier life, is frightened by the very first difficulties and goes back home. But the woman stays, because she has fallen in love with a local man. There are no optimistic declarations—only a timid hope that she will take root in this new place, together with the birch trees she planted near the house.
Jul 1957
In the center of the plot of the film is the fate of a young girl Aigul. She works well in the collective farm fields, acts as a leader of the youth, dreams of creating her own folk theater in her native collective farm. The famous singer Dosai Nurlanov, by a misunderstanding, gets into the "Singing village" (this is the playful name of the collective farm) and becomes a witness to the growing culture of the village. This inspires him to become the head of the people's theater...
Aug 1961
About the Soviet man, his honesty, intransigence with evil.
Aug 1979
Everything is easy and simple for the main character Alzhan Tulegenov, a student of the Faculty of Journalism, a master of sports in judo wrestling. It was only during his internship that he had to face serious difficulties for the first time. Having not thoroughly understood the essence of the problem, Aljan wrote an article in which he unfairly accused an honest man. The decisive battle of the hero takes place not on the fight mat, but inside himself...
Nov 1979
High in the mountains, a lonely plane tree grows on a rock. The legend says that in ancient times, the beautiful girl Aisulu threw herself from this cliff, not wanting to reconcile herself with fate and get the unloved one. So, as a memory of her, a beautiful plane tree has grown in this place.
Jan 1965
Sep 1977
About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.
Apr 1968
May 1961
Ichthyologist Tonya Tikhonova and the chief engineer of the fishery plant, Ryazanov, are heading to the fishing seiner "Squall" (Shkval). Tonya loves Ryazanov, and this love frightens her. Ryazanov is also the object of affection of Panna, the wife of Ermak, the captain of the seiner. "Squall" is on course for Krutaya Bay — promising a good catch. Ryazanov and Panna go to the bay to check the composition of the plankton.
Jan 1960
About a geology student who came to Mangyshlak Region for field practice, his introduction to work and the team, and his first life challenges.
Jan 1968
The film is about how the aul boy Cher raised a handsome horse from a Shock foal, about the boy's love and devotion to the animal. And when the boy's older brother sells the horse, the boy rushes in search of him...
Jan 1972
Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.
Apr 1990
Three teenagers are left alone on the river in Kazakhstan during WWII.
Apr 1983
The first years of Soviet power. The rich Aktanbai decides to steal his flocks abroad. However, only the shepherd Malbagar knows the secret paths in the mountains. Therefore, Aktanbai, giving the orphan girl Nurzhamal to Malbagar as a wife, demands to indicate the way through the mountains for this. On the way to the border, Malbagar, heeding the requests of Nurzhamal, who did not want to be his wife, helps the girl escape from the camp of Aktanbai. Years pass. Nurzhamal, after graduating from medical school, returns to his native village...
Jan 1954
Three representatives of the social bottom took shelter on the shore of Issyk-Kul, under the hot sun. They have no home, no money, no food, no clothes, no bright future.
Jan 1988