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This Is What I Remember
This Is What I Remember
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This Is What I Remember

Original Title: Esimde

2023
1h 45m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

2023

Runtime

1h 45m

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Storyline

An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his matured son Kubat. Much has changed during his absence: the morals of the villagers, mired in the realities of a changing world, radicalization of Islam, growing crime, and moral corrosive corruption began to consume... Zarlyk’s wife Umsunai, having lost hope of his return, went into religion, married the local authority Jaichy. The bright past invades the already accustomed Umsunai’s life. But nothing touches Zarlyk. An inexplicable passion for collecting garbage replaced him everything. Will the memory return to him and will Umsunai gain lost happiness when they are pressed by tight attitudes and immorality of the clergy, when love has eclipsed recklessness?

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 45m
Sep 21, 2023
Languages
Arabic
Kirghiz
Director
Aktan Arym Kubat
Aktan Arym Kubat
Production
Kyrgyzfilm
Kyrgyzfilm
Bitters End
Bitters End
Mandra Films
Mandra Films
Oy Art Film Producing Company
Oy Art Film Producing Company
Volya Films
Volya Films
Production Countries
France
Japan
Kyrgyz Republic
Netherlands
Singapore

Top Cast

12 Cast Members

Aktan Arym Kubat

Aktan Arym Kubat

Zarlyk

Mirlan Abdykalykov

Mirlan Abdykalykov

Zarlyk's Son

Taalaikan Abazova

Taalaikan Abazova

Umsunai

Elnura Osmonalieva

Meerim

Nazym Mendebairov

Nazym Mendebairov

Jaichy

Anar Nazarkulova

Kadicha (Mother-in-Law)

Gulmira Tursunbaeva

Gulmira Tursunbaeva

Nasreddin Dubashev

Erkin Saliev

Maksat Mamyrkanov

Mars Tugelov

Tynchtyk Abylkasymov

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