The Gift to Stalin

10/06/2008

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1hr 37min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • S. Kunushaliyeva
  • Yekaterina Rednikova
  • Dalen Shintemirov
  • Waldemar Szczepaniak
  • Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

    Directors

  • Ermek Tursunov
  • Rustem Abdrashov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Tor Films
  • Aldongar Production
  • Kazakhfilm Studios

    Production Countries

  • Israel
  • Kazakhstan
  • Poland
  • Russia

LANGUAGES

  • Hebrew
  • Kazakh
  • Russian