The Needle

The Needle 1988

6.60

Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.

1988

Revenge

Revenge 1990

5.98

Enraged, a teacher murders a young female pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

1990

The Last Stop

The Last Stop 1990

1

A young man comes home to his Kazakh village after finishing up his stint in the Soviet Army. All that he finds are his old friends drinking, senselessly carousing, tumbling into one violent brawl after another.

1990

Balcony

Balcony 1988

5.50

A surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their refuge.

1988

The End of Ataman

The End of Ataman 1970

4.80

A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.

1970

The Victims Have No Grievance

The Victims Have No Grievance 1986

6.00

A man was killed in the fight, another was seriously injured. The perpetrators confessed to what they had done. The investigator of the prosecutor's office Ilyas Sadykov had only to issue documents. But something in the testimony of the defendants alerted him, and Sadykov started the investigation anew...

1986

A Special Day

A Special Day 1972

1

The clash of two styles of approaches to people, science, and business is the main conflict of the film. Both central characters - the head of the Altai complex space station and the experiment leader Andrei - are people devoted to science. But Altai is an emotional person, he manages to take care of people, forgive them their small shortcomings and mistakes. Andrey is dry, sometimes even rude to his employees. His absorption in work sometimes borders on selfishness. This gives rise to a clash with Touma, a gifted physicist, but a man of a different plane.

1972

My Sister Lucy

My Sister Lucy 1985

4.00

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.

1985

Beybars

Beybars 1989

1

The first part of a historical film dilogy based on the story “Emshan” by Maurice Simashko. XIII century. Equal to God, Sultan Beybars — the ruler of Egypt, who has the largest fleet in the Mediterranean, crushed the Crusader troops and countless hordes of Genghis Khan’s descendant – recalls the life path he passed before ascending to the throne of the ruler.

1989

Trans-Siberian Express

Trans-Siberian Express 1977

5.60

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

1977

The Stray White and the Speckled

The Stray White and the Speckled 1986

5.10

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

1986

Fear, Enemy, the Ninth Son

Fear, Enemy, the Ninth Son 1984

1

The youngest son of the herdsman Yerzhan — the ninth son of Yerkenzhe, goes in search of his father and eight brothers, bewitched by the evil Tasbol into stone idols. By the power of his spirit, Yerkenzhe overcomes the spell of Tasbol and frees his loved ones.

1984

TsOKS in Alma-Ata

TsOKS in Alma-Ata 1974

1

In August 1941, two largest Soviet film studios Mosfilm and Lenfilm were evacuated to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. There, together with the newly founded Alma-Ata Film Studio, they were merged into TsOKS (Central United Film Studio), which became the main center of film production in the country until 1944. Now Kazakh film industry veterans who worked at the studio during these years recall the dawn of national cinema and years of work with Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Romm and others.

1974

The Fall of Otrar

The Fall of Otrar 1991

6.00

A staggering historical epic about the intrigue and turmoil of the East Asian civilization of Otrar, before its systematic destruction at the hands of Genghis Khan.

1991

Toro

Toro 1986

5.00

The film shows children from a village who play football for money

1986

Trio

Trio 1988

1.00

Three representatives of the social bottom took shelter on the shore of Issyk-Kul, under the hot sun. They have no home, no money, no food, no clothes, no bright future.

1988

Blood and Sweat

Blood and Sweat 1979

7.00

A film epic about the class struggle in a small fishing village on the shore of the Aral sea, about the revolutionary events that stirred up the steppe region. The civil war in the steppes of the Aral sea region is a concrete historical background on which the life of the heroes — Aral fishermen and nomadic pastoralists-unfolds. Three dramatic fates, three characters in the center of the story: the poor farmhand Elaman, who became the leader of the masses awakened by the revolution, Bai Tanibergen, the owner of the steppe, and the beautiful Akbala. Their relationship is not a banal "love triangle", it is a drama that reflects the complexity of the processes that took place in the pre-revolutionary period and during the revolution.

1979

The Land of Our Fathers

The Land of Our Fathers 1966

6.10

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

1966

A Taste of Bread

A Taste of Bread 1979

4.50

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

1979