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The Gift to Stalin
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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

S. Kunushaliyeva

S. Kunushaliyeva

Yekaterina Rednikova

Yekaterina Rednikova

Dalen Shintemirov

Dalen Shintemirov

Waldemar Szczepaniak

Waldemar Szczepaniak

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Aleksandr Bashirov

Aleksandr Bashirov

Kasym Zhakibayev

Kasym Zhakibayev

Assel Sadvakassova

Assel Sadvakassova

Sergei Yursky

Sergei Yursky

David Markish

David Markish

Erbolat Toguzakov

Erbolat Toguzakov

Bakhtiyar Kozha

Bakhtiyar Kozha