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Подарок Сталину

Movie - 97mins

Drama

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.

Rating: 5.5

Cast:

name

Kasym

Zhakibayev

name

Sergei

Yursky

name

Assel

Sadvakassova

name

Turakhan

Sadykova

name

S.

Kunushaliyeva

name

Nurzhuman

Ihtymbaev

name

Dalen

Shintemirov

name

David

Markish

name

Yekaterina

Rednikova

name

Waldemar

Szczepaniak

name

Aleksandr

Bashirov

name

Bakhtiyar

Kozha

name

Erbolat

Toguzakov

name

Kasym

Zhakibayev

name

Sergei

Yursky

name

Assel

Sadvakassova

name

Turakhan

Sadykova

name

S.

Kunushaliyeva

name

Nurzhuman

Ihtymbaev

name

Dalen

Shintemirov

name

David

Markish

name

Yekaterina

Rednikova

name

Waldemar

Szczepaniak