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The Gift to Stalin
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The Gift to Stalin

2008-10-06 · 97 min · ★ 6.4

Drama

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.

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Production details

Directors
Rustem Abdrashev
Production companies
Tor Films, Aldongar Production, Kazakhfilm Studios
Countries
Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia
Status
Released
Budget
USD 2,000,000

Top Cast

Nurzhuman IhtymbaevNurzhuman IhtymbaevKasym
Dalen ShintemirovSashka
David MarkishAleksandr Povzner
Yekaterina RednikovaYekaterina RednikovaVerka
Waldemar SzczepaniakJerzy Dąbrowski
Aleksandr BashirovAleksandr BashirovMajor
Bakhtiyar KozhaBakhtiyar KozhaBalgabay
Erbolat ToguzakovErbolat ToguzakovFaty
Kasym ZhakibayevKasym ZhakibayevShaman
Sergei YurskySergei YurskyNarrator (voice)
Assel SadvakassovaAssel SadvakassovaYoung Kazakh Woman
Turakhan SadykovaTurakhan SadykovaBansy
S. Kunushaliyeva

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