Kerim Annanov

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

The plot of the philosophical parable, the meaning of which boils down to the simple idea that "people are animals", develops in three instructive directions: the story of the shepherd waiting for death, who once did not meet his mother, who came to him from a distant village; the second story is about a young man who went to the mountains away from the worldly world, and finally, the third story is about a sheep trying to save its child from the fate that was destined for it.

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.

Villagers Adzhap and Meilis fell in love with each other. However, Adzhap's relatives, who followed old traditions, separated the lovers. Years passed. Adzhap and Meilis met again, and their old feelings were revived. However, Adzhap says goodbye to Meilis forever, so as not to destroy his family...

In the summer of 1918, the situation in Transcaspia was especially difficult. The Menshevik government led by Funtikov seized power. Only the fortress city of Kushka remains Soviet. The garrison went over to the Bolshevik side. Large reserves of weapons and ammunition are concentrated in the fortress, which especially attracts the Mensheviks and the British who help them. The commander of the garrison, the former tsarist general Vostrosablin, decides not to surrender the fortress. To do this, he and Commissar Morgunov are developing a defense plan. White Colonel Zykov, with the support of the Basmachi and the British, hopes to take Kushka. But the tough confrontation between the parties ends with the victory of the defenders of the fortress.

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

An Eastern shah and his vizier have no heirs. One day, they go hunting, intending to shoot a roe deer. At the last moment, the vizier notices that the doe was about to give birth, and the shah decides to spare the animal. That same night, the shah and the vizier have the same dream: it is as if the doe has foretold to them that both would soon have heirs.

Like all of the Turkmen director Khalmamed Kakabayev's films, this one is about children and their first discoveries of the world of emotions and nature. Seven-year-old Almaz lives in an orphanage. He is very independent and rarely asks for help from his teachers. Like all orphans, Almaz dreams of his parents suddenly appearing in his life. One day, when he meets a woman in a cemetery who is mourning her son, Almaz befriends her and helps her cope with her grief.