The Needle

The Needle 1988

6.60

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.

1988

Revenge

Revenge 1990

6.00

Enraged, a teacher murders a young female pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

1990

The Song of Manshuk

The Song of Manshuk 1969

6.00

The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery. The film recreates the past and shows a day of combat life Manshuk and her comrades, who took unequal battle with German tanks.

1969

The Stray White and the Speckled

The Stray White and the Speckled 1986

5.10

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

1986

On the Wild Coast of the Irtysh

On the Wild Coast of the Irtysh 1959

1

The builders of the hydroelectric power station face a difficult task: it is necessary to speed up the work in order to provide electricity to a number of other industrial facilities in the region. Construction managers are taking different paths to solving this problem.

1959

Songs of Abai

Songs of Abai 1946

5.00

The screen adaptation of the novel "Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov recreates the story of prominent Kazakh poet and philosopher Abay Kunanbayev. The famous Kazakh poet became friends with the Russian exile, scientist Nifont Dolgopolov. Under the influence of their growing friendship, Abai formed some of his academic ideas and principles.

1946

The End of Ataman

The End of Ataman 1970

4.80

A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.

1970

The Victims Have No Grievance

The Victims Have No Grievance 1986

6.00

A man was killed in the fight, another was seriously injured. The perpetrators confessed to what they had done. The investigator of the prosecutor's office Ilyas Sadykov had only to issue documents. But something in the testimony of the defendants alerted him, and Sadykov started the investigation anew...

1986

The Fierce One

The Fierce One 1973

4.60

A boy raises a wolf cub, but when released into the wild, it returns to attack him.

1973

My Name Is Kozha

My Name Is Kozha 1963

4.50

A story about a funny boy named Kozha who always gets into troubles.

1963

A Taste of Bread

A Taste of Bread 1979

4.50

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

1979

Alpamys Goes to School

Alpamys Goes to School 1978

7.00

A funny story of a six year old Kazakh boy who really wants to start going to school in order to join his seven year old friend.

1978

Balcony

Balcony 1988

5.50

A surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their refuge.

1988

Woman of the Day

Woman of the Day 1990

1

Late USSR, Almaty, polygamy, freedom and conventionality of life

1990

A Poem About Love

A Poem About Love 1954

1

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.

1954

Warrior

Warrior 1991

5.00

In order to free his mother from the khan's imprisonment, the young warrior Kaisar must get a sacred sword from the Heavenly Land. With his help, he frees the most beautiful girl on Earth from the hands of all-powerful monks who preach the bloody cult of sacrifice to the forces of evil and master the martial art of ninja, for the love of which he is ready to give his life.

1991

In One Area

In One Area 1961

1

About the secretary of the district committee of the party, Sabyr Bayanov, who at the beginning of his work deservedly won the authority and respect of people, and then, having become arrogant, he lost his sense of responsibility and turned into a bureaucrat.

1961

The Land of Our Fathers

The Land of Our Fathers 1966

6.10

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

1966