Crossroads

A Poem About Love

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.

Song Calls

In the center of the plot of the film is the fate of a young girl Aigul. She works well in the collective farm fields, acts as a leader of the youth, dreams of creating her own folk theater in her native collective farm. The famous singer Dosai Nurlanov, by a misunderstanding, gets into the "Singing village" (this is the playful name of the collective farm) and becomes a witness to the growing culture of the village. This inspires him to become the head of the people's theater...

In One District

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.

Daughter of the Steppes

The first years of Soviet power. The rich Aktanbai decides to steal his flocks abroad. However, only the shepherd Malbagar knows the secret paths in the mountains. Therefore, Aktanbai, giving the orphan girl Nurzhamal to Malbagar as a wife, demands to indicate the way through the mountains for this. On the way to the border, Malbagar, heeding the requests of Nurzhamal, who did not want to be his wife, helps the girl escape from the camp of Aktanbai. Years pass. Nurzhamal, after graduating from medical school, returns to his native village...

White Rose

The granddaughter of the old man Jagpara Sabira is beautiful, spoiled, cunning. Several young men immediately fall in love with her. They all hope to get a positive response from her and calmly go to the front. Sabira does not openly deny reciprocity to any of them. As a sign of respect, she gives a white rose to the lovers of the horseman. Every horseman, not knowing that Sabira gave the same white rose to everyone else, hopes for her love. But she sends all the horsemen to her grandfather for a final answer.

Zhambyl

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev.

Here We Live

1954. The first detachment of young virgin lands arrives in the remote Kazakh steppe. The old forester Bulanbai warns the guys about the difficulties, but the youth boldly gets to work. We have to fight not only with the harsh nature, but also with the inertia of the director of the trust of state farms Kuanysh Korkutov. Contrary to his instructions, the director of the Komsomolsky state farm Kudryash prefers to process heavy, but more promising land masses. The secretary of the regional committee Beisov supports Kudryash. Korkunov is being removed from office. Soon a new group of young people arrives at the state farm...

Beardless Deceiver

Aldar Kose is not a name, but a nickname. Aldar means deceiver, Kos - beardless. And what was the name of this man in fact, and whether he lived at all, no one will say for sure. But in every Kazakh village, in every yurt in the mountainous Dzhailau, they talk about Aldar Kos as their good friend. He tells about him in different ways, but everything converges on the fact that he was poor and kind, hated the oppressors of the people, fought against injustice and helped the offended... Like a tumbleweed bush, Aldar Koshe, who was forever wandering through the boundless Kazakh steppes, once met a beautiful woman and fell in love with her. But the girl loves another — a brave, honest and kind poor man, herding the herds of a rich man.

Angel Wearing Tubeteika

Taylak is a kind teacher of geography. People call him "Angel in a tubeteika, a traditional Central Asian skull cap," for his kind caring personality and also because he never parts with his traditional skull cap. One day his mother comes to Almaty to visit him. She decides that it's time her son got married and she starts to look for a bride for Taylak.

Our Kind Doctor

Doctor Lavrov is a head physician at one of the health resorts in Kazakhstan. He is known for his kindness and compassion towards his patients. When it comes to his 60th birthday, his colleagues put in extra effort to surprise him.

Rajchan

About the emancipation of Kazakh women under Soviet rule.

Songs of Abai

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.

Gunshot at the Mountain Pass

About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.

The Land of Our Fathers

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...

The End of the Ataman

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.

Once and for a Lifetime

The first post-revolutionary years in Kazakhstan, the period of formation of Soviet power. More than once, the bandits tried to deal with the singer of the people, the poet Erken, but could not silence him. It seemed that the earth itself kept him safe — he found shelter and help in the homes of the poor, escaped from prison, on the instructions of the Bolshevik committee, under the guise of a tramp, made his way to the south, explaining everywhere the advantages of Soviet power for the people. Erken carried his love for Aklima through his whole life. Having met her once in one of the villages, he could not forget a young woman whose fate was tragic.