How the Steel Was Tempered

How the Steel Was Tempered 1942

1.80

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.

1942

Oasis

Oasis 1972

6.70

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oasis that is 60 km away.

1972

Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden 1988

1

Old man Khalnazar tells the orphan Toykuli about the kidnapped Gyulkahkas-peri, who brings joy to people. The boy decides to find Gylkahkas. The trials that befell him were shared by a girl he met named... Gyulkahkas. Only at the end of his wanderings Toykuli realized that his companion was the peri he was looking for, and only kindness and love could work miracles.

1988

Fragi - Away from Happiness

Fragi - Away from Happiness 1984

1

Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

1984

Vows of Our Childhood

Vows of Our Childhood 1989

1

Once in an orphanage, nine-year-old Oraz finds a friend in the person of teacher Dovlat. In the hungry post-war years, Dovlat does everything to prevent children from suffering. One day, having caught the cook Izyumgul stealing, he brings trouble upon himself: in order to avoid being put on trial, Izyumgul spreads slanderous rumors about the teacher. Dovlat goes to prison, and the cook becomes the director of the orphanage. Forty years pass, and Oraz is invited to Izyumgul’s anniversary...

1989

The Daughter-in-Law

The Daughter-in-Law 1972

5.80

A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.

1972

Wilder

Wilder 1989

1

Fifteen-year-old Aina is going through her first difficulties. For the first time, she felt lonely and unprotected. The father left after the divorce, the mother is trying to arrange her personal life. The only true friend - grandfather - dies in Aina's arms. For her inconvenient character - the desire to get to the bottom of right and wrong actions - the girl was nicknamed mad. Aina, who cannot tolerate lies, has a hard time both at school and at home. But she is strong because she has her own ideas about a happy life.

1989

Your Brother Is My Brother

Your Brother Is My Brother 1987

1

The film takes place in Turkmenistan during the Second World War. Here, at a small railway siding, chance brings together Zina, whose husband disappeared at the front, Nadya from besieged Leningrad, and locomotive depot driver Andrei, who dreams of the front and the front line. The driver, having fallen in love with Zina, immediately proposes to her. But Zina does not consider herself a widow - and refuses her beloved. After which - to spite the whole world - the hero marries the silent Nadya and soon receives an assignment to the front. While accompanying a train with fuel, Andrei dies during the bombing of a railway junction, never having been to the front.

1987

Mankurt

Mankurt 1990

5.00

The film is about a Turkmen who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.

1990

Little Fire

Little Fire 1976

1

This story is about a little red foal who was recently born, and he is yet to become man's first friend and helper. And, as it turns out, for this it is not at all necessary to be the strongest, nor the fastest, nor the most dexterous. The main thing is to be kind, and then for your best friend you will always be the best.

1976

Muskal

Muskal 1990

1

Young investigator leads cases related to drug trafficking, while his boss, connected to the underworld, seeks his arrest.

1990

Case in Dash-Kale

Case in Dash-Kale 1963

1

Maya, who grew up in the city, comes to the old village of Dash-Kala. A young teacher becomes a witness to how young Soltan is being sold in marriage.

1963

Jamal's Tree

Jamal's Tree 1981

2.00

Story of Jamal, a Turkmen woman who is left to tend to the farm when her husband goes off to fight in WW2.

1981

Ten Steps to the East

Ten Steps to the East 1961

1

Ten steps from the round pillar, in the ruins of the old fortress of Kum-Basan-Kala, secret messages are hidden, which must be delivered abroad. For these documents, foreign intelligence sends its spy. The film tells about the events that took place in the old fortress.

1961

The Education of a Man

The Education of a Man 1983

5.00

A young boy is taken from his cozy existence in the city to live with his grandfather in the wild countryside of Central Asia.

1983

Slave

Slave 1970

1

In the 1920s, in Turkmenistan, Qalli-bai makes the difficult decision to join the Basmachi, leaving behind his ailing wife in the care of their daughter, Dzhamal.

1970

Mirror

Mirror 1960

1

The film takes place in the late 1920s, during the emergence of the first collective farms in Turkmenistan. The main character Aina works as a laborer for the kulak Esen-bay, who hates the Soviet regime and is associated with the Basmachi.

1960

She-Wolf

She-Wolf 1990

1

A Turkmen shepherd is on an obsessive quest to kill the wolf that's been snatching his sheep.

1990