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The Gift to Stalin (2008)

The Gift to Stalin (2008)

Drama
Release Date: 2008, October 6
Directors: Rustem Abdrashov
Countries: Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia
Production: Tor Films, Aldongar Production, Kazakhfilm Studios
Cast: Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev, Aleksandr Bashirov, Erbolat Toguzakov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Assel Sadvakassova, Turakhan Sadykova, Sergei Yursky, Waldemar Szczepaniak, Dalen Shintemirov, Bakhtiyar Kozha, Kasym Zhakibayev

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

kazakhstan joseph stalin