The Gift to Stalin

Name: The Gift to Stalin
Genre: Drama
Released: 06 Oct 2008
Rating: 5.50
Cast: S. Kunushaliyeva, Bakhtiar Khoja, Yekaterina Rednikova, Dalen Shintemirov, Waldemar Szczepaniak

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.

Year: 2008

Genre: Drama

Studio: Tor Films, Aldongar Production, Kazakhfilm Studios

Director: Rustem Abdrashov

Cast: S. Kunushaliyeva, Bakhtiar Khoja, Yekaterina Rednikova, Dalen Shintemirov, Waldemar Szczepaniak, Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Crew: Ermek Tursunov (Screenplay), Pavel Finn (Screenplay), Khasan Kydyraliyev (Director of Photography), Aleksandr Rorokin (Production Design), Rustem Abdrashov (Director)

Runtime: 97 minutes

Release: Oct 06, 2008

IMDb: 5.50/10 by 7 users

Popularity: 5

Country: Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia

Language: עִבְרִית, қазақ, Pусский