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The Gift to Stalin(2008)

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ReleasedDrama1h 37m

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.

Budget:

$ 2M

Directed by:

Rustem Abdrashov

Cast

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev thumbnail

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Kasym

Dalen Shintemirov thumbnail

Dalen Shintemirov

Sashka

David Markish thumbnail

David Markish

Aleksandr Povzner

Yekaterina Rednikova thumbnail

Yekaterina Rednikova

Verka

Waldemar Szczepaniak thumbnail

Waldemar Szczepaniak

Jerzy Dąbrowski

Aleksandr Bashirov thumbnail

Aleksandr Bashirov

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