Three brothers were waiting for their father Olmes to return from the war, imagining him as a hero, like the former circus performer Anuar, who had actually fallen from grace and started stealing. When Olmes returned, the children were disappointed by his appearance, but during the kokpar game, he...
To speed up Japan's entry into the war against the USSR, Hitler sent his emissary to Tokyo. The route of his plane lay through the territory of Kazakhstan, where refueling was to take place. This operation was codenamed "Panther".
It's so different — the world of our childhood. For Arman, the little hero of the film, these are endless meadows and snow—white flocks of sheep grazing on the steep slopes of green hills, the calm warmth of a yurt, an ancient stone baba, to which a real hunting golden eagle arrives every day,...
During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to Islamic rituals in a sacred place is denied by the Soviet authorities, who use that place for rocket testing.
The film tells the love story of a successful Sabine and a Kazakh language teacher Arman, who is expecting the birth of his son with his fiancee. Language lessons for Sabina become lessons of love that she must understand.
A band of young musicians is looking for fees across the steppe in an ramshackle old bus. During their tour, starving, they kill a cow but they don't know what to do with it. They will also bring happiness in an old people's home in return for food.
