Movies: Kirghizfilm

Based on the novel of the same name by Chinghiz Aitmatov. The action takes place during the days of World War II in one of the villages of Kyrgyzstan. The famous artist Seit recalls his childhood, his first unrequited love for Dzhamilya, the wife o...

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the shores of the Issyk-Kul Lake becomes a documentary parable on the tensions between an artist and societ...

An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader....

Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrin...

A boy raises a wolf cub, but when released into the wild, it returns to attack him....

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 s...

Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city. When his youngest son pays him a visit, Bakai wants him to stay and help with the rigors of rural living....

Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing, he, having to choose a tragic solution....

"Worship the Fire" is a 1972 feature by Tolomush Okeev....

Sultanmurat is a 14 year old boy who lives in a small Kyrgyz village. All the men have gone off to war so he is left alone to tend to the horses who are weak with hunger....

A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements....

Tien-Shan, 1966. For the first time in 13 years, winter duration is six months. Sheep in the mountains are hungry for grass on the sunny slopes. The state is taking urgent measures to save hundreds of thousands of wintering animals. But still......

In this fantasy film inspired by a Kirghiz fairy-tale and Wilhelm Hauff's "Das kalte Herz," a powerful sorcerer puts a spell on a beautiful dancer, rendering her incapable of love until an infatuated shovel operator comes along....

Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border....

Feature made for Kyrgyz television by Melis Ubukeyev (White Mountains)....

About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days....

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Directed by Tolomush Okeyev....

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"Mirages of Love" is a Soviet-Syrian film directed by Tolomush Okeyev about the fate of Mani, a medieval oriental master....