Manchurian Variant

Forest Ballad

The Year of the Dragon

About the tragic defeat of the popular uprising led by the young dzhigit Akhtam and the young beauty Mayimkhan. Events are developing at the beginning of the liberation struggle of the Uighur people against the Manchurian-Chinese enslavers. The middle of the XIX century.

The Promised Land

This film is a gratitude to the Kazakh Koreans, Germans, Turks, Chechens, Kurds and other peoples of this land and the Kazakh people, who met them with due attention and sympathy, despite their incredible difficulties after the jute of the 30s. For these peoples, our country has become a real Homeland.

Shokan Valikhanov

A television film about a famous scientist, traveler, and educator of the 19th century. About the life and work of Shokan Valikhanov— the first Kazakh scholar-educator, historian, ethnographer, and folklorist.

Both Jokingly and Seriously...

The film consists of three novellas that criticize bribery, indifference, callousness, parasitism, and other human vices. "The Necklace." Aldan's mother left him to guard her ice cream cart while she went to the store to buy a necklace... "The Newlyweds." Sholpan received an anonymous letter and went to her husband's construction site to investigate the situation... "Believe It or Not." The protagonist of this novella is a sheep. Funny things happen to him...

In Those Days

A historical-revolutionary film based on real events in the small Kazakh settlement of Ridder, where news of the revolution in Petrograd arrives. A strike breaks out at the mines owned by a British joint-stock company.