The Gift to Stalin
2008 · 97 min
Drama
★ 5.5A 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.
Crew
- Director Rustem Abdrashov
- Screenplay Ermek Tursunov
- Screenplay Pavel Finn
- Director of Photography Khasan Kydyraliyev
Cast
Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev
Kasym
- D
Dalen Shintemirov
Sashka
- D
David Markish
Aleksandr Povzner
Yekaterina Rednikova
Verka
- W
Waldemar Szczepaniak
Jerzy Dąbrowski
Aleksandr Bashirov
Major
Bakhtiyar Kozha
Balgabay
Erbolat Toguzakov
Faty
Kasym Zhakibayev
Shaman
Sergei Yursky
Narrator (voice)
Assel Sadvakassova
Young Kazakh Woman
Turakhan Sadykova
Bansy
Crew
- Director — Rustem Abdrashov
- Screenplay — Ermek Tursunov
- Screenplay — Pavel Finn
- Director of Photography — Khasan Kydyraliyev
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