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  • Tolomush Okeev – Lyutyy AKA The Ferocious One (1974)

    1971-1980DramaKazakhstanTolomush Okeev

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    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, believing that this “softness” will result in the boy’s being unable to endure the rigors of life on the Kazakh steppes, savagely beats the cub in front of the boy. By the time the grown wolf is released into the wild, it has grown extremely ferocious and it returns and attacks the boy, perhaps because it perceives him as being weak, just as the boy’s uncle did.Read More »

  • Bolotbek Shamshiyev – Alye maki Issyk-Kulya AKA The scarlet poppies of Issyk-Kul (1972)

    1971-1980Bolotbek ShamshiyevDramaKrygyzstan

    Based on the novella “The Smugglers of the Tian Shan”, this popular Kyrgyz film takes place in the 1920s and uses the basic formula of the Red Western: a Bolshevik superman fights a violent native gang of opium traffickers.
    Somewhere in Kyrgyzstan in the 1920s, the pro-Soviet guard Karabalta (‘Black Axe’) detects secret paths in the mountains used by smugglers to transport opium across the Soviet border.
    Meanwhile, a strange man named ‘Golden Mouth’ offers to accompany a patrol unit led by the Russian commander Kondraty, promising to help find these smugglers and their camp. A mission to find the opium cache is complicated by kidnappers and other disasters. […]
    The film is distinguished by superb camera work, praising the beauty of Kyrgyzstan’s wild nature in lavish widescreen images.Read More »

  • Tolomush Okeev – Krasnoe yabloko AKA The Red Apple (1975)

    Tolomush Okeev1971-1980ArthouseDramaUSSR

    “Red Apple” – a chronicle of a few days in a small family, a story about the difficulties of human contacts, the complexity of love. The image of red apples – strong and clear, profound and lucid. Okeyev’s “apple” bears a special meaning. Juices of the earth and sun, it is a lyrical symbol of happiness and harmony. (kyrgyzfilm.kg)Read More »

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