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Darezhan Omirbayev – Kairat (1992)
Kairat, the first feature film from „Kazakh new wave“ film director Darezhan Omirbaev, tells the story of a young man from a village in Kazakh steppe and his initiation into life in the big city....
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Sultan Khodzhikov – Kyz-Zhibek AKA Lady Zhibek (1971)
Quote: Kyz-Zhibek – Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh...
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Sergei Bodrov & Ivan Passer – Nomad (2005)
18th century Kazakhstan, a vast, pitiless region of austere and terrible beauty, bordered by China, Russia and Tibet. Here the proud and warlike Kazakh tribes have survived and fought for centuries –...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Student (2012)
The film is based on “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Action takes place in modern Kazakhstan. The film’s protagonist is The Student whose major at the university is philosophy. He rents a...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Tueur à gages AKA Killer (1998)
Quote: Darezhan Omirbaev (Kairat, Kardiogramma) directed this French-Kazakh film about a young man driven to the precipice in an uncaring world. Marat (Talgat Assetov) works as a chauffeur for a...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Jol AKA The Road (2001)
A filmmaker arrives at a crossroads in his life and his art when he learns his mother may be dying in this drama with comedic overtones from director Darezhan Omirbaev. Amir Kobessov (Djamshed...
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Abdulla Karsakbayev – Menya zovut kozha aka My Name is Kozha (1964)
Koja is really a little brat nobody can tame. His mother, neighbours and even his head teacher don’t know how to deal with such a boy any more. The head teacher tells him that, unfortunately, he is...
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Emir Baigazin – Uroki garmonii AKA Harmony Lessons (2013)
Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/A19B8D8CBF81813/Lecon_d_harmonie.mkv...
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Emir Baigazin – Ranenyy angel AKA The Wounded Angel (2016)
A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Darezhan Omirbayev: Educational Films (2015)
Educational film by Darezhan Omirbayev for film schools students. AUTOGRAPHS A series of educational films, “Autographs” is a textbook for students of cinema department, which is dedicated to the...
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Amanzhol Aituarov – Prikosnoveniye (1989)
MDB: Nice and sad Fairytale I was pretty surprised to see this rare Kazach film. First of all it touches upon great Asian folk atmosphere and has wonderful music, partly composed by master of soviet...
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Adilkhan Yerzhanov – Ukkili kamshat AKA The Owners (2014)
Two Kazakh brothers are about to lose their ancestral tumbledown house to corruption and nepotism while their little sister loses her capacity to breathe and their mother loses her mind....
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Student (2012)
The film is based on “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Action takes place in modern Kazakhstan. The film’s protagonist is The Student whose major at the university is philosophy. He rents a...
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Sultan Khodzhikov – Kyz-Zhibek AKA Lady Zhibek (1971)
Quote: Kyz-Zhibek – Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Kairat (1992)
Quote: This 34-year-old filmmaker has invented an entire universe,” wrote Jean-Michel Frodon in Le Monde, and he was right. Darezhan Omirbaev may well have been inspired by Bresson and Hitchcock, but...
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Adilkhan Yerzhanov – Chuma v aule Karatas AKA The Plague at the Karatas...
Quote: Yerzhanov is a strong voice of the new Kazakh cinema. The story When a young mayor arrives in Karatas, a remote village in Kazakhstan, he finds a large part of the population ill. He recognises...
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Abdulla Karsakbayev – Menya zovut kozha aka My Name is Kozha (1964)
Koja is really a little brat nobody can tame. His mother, neighbours and even his head teacher don’t know how to deal with such a boy any more. The head teacher tells him that, unfortunately, he is...
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Emir Baigazin – Uroki garmonii AKA Harmony Lessons (2013)
Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat. 1.95GB | 1h 54mn | 1049×552 | mkv...
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Sergei Dvortsevoy – Ayka (2018)
A poor woman without a job struggles to raise her child. Ayka is a 2018 drama film directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At...
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Tolomush Okeyev – Lyutyy AKA The Ferocious One (1974)
Quote:This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. A young orphan rescues an orphaned wolf cub and lavishes considerable affection on it. His uncle,...
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