The Land of Our Fathers

Mar 1, 1966

1h 26m

★ 6.1

Overview

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...

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kazakhfilm

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Cast

Grandfather

Yeleubai Umurzakov

Bayan

Murat Akhmadiev

Yegor

Viktor Shevtsov

Archaeologist

Yuri Pomerantsev

Sofya

Tamara Kokova

Orphan

Viktor Perevalov

Circassian

Radner Muratov

Yaragi Zubayrayev

Lyubov Malinovskaya

Amina Umurzakova

Sholpan Altaybayeva

B. Rutsinskiy

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