The Gift to Stalin

Oct 6, 2008

1h 37m

★ 5.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Tor Films

Aldongar Production

Kazakhfilm Studios

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Cast

Kasym

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Sashka

Dalen Shintemirov

Aleksandr Povzner

David Markish

Verka

Yekaterina Rednikova

Jerzy Dąbrowski

Waldemar Szczepaniak

Major

Aleksandr Bashirov

Balgabay

Bakhtiyar Kozha

Faty

Erbolat Toguzakov

Shaman

Kasym Zhakibayev

Narrator (voice)

Sergei Yursky

Young Kazakh Woman

Assel Sadvakassova

Bansy

Turakhan Sadykova

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