Dinmukhamet Akhimov

Escape from Village (2015)

A story about five best friends who left their village to make a fortune in big city. ...

The Old Woman (2014)

An old man and his old woman live in a remote Kazakh village. People call the old man Shorty Kairgali without malice. Kairgali has known his old lady, Kulpash, since high school. So they've been together for forty years. And maybe even more. Shorty also ha ...

Hard to Be a God (2014)

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can the ...

The Book of Legends: The Mysterious Forest (2012)

Bakha and Takha are the sons of a well-known businessman who are really into adventures and surprises. Once, the boys come across a story about the Queen of the Turkic Amazons who needs help to fight the Powers of Evil. The brothers decide to offer their h ...

Waiting for the Sea (2012)

Sailor Marat carries a great burden. His whole village condemns him since his wife and many fishermen were washed off his boat in a mysterious sea storm. Ever since then the sea has vanished. One day, Marat returns to his village, obsessed by the idea of m ...

The Sky of My Childhood (2011)

The story of a boy whose childhood fell on the difficult war and post-war years. The film will tell about the formation of personality, character, attitude of the child, about the first disappointments, about the birth and realization of his dreams. ...

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion (2009)

Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will d ...

The Inhabited Island (2009)

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with i ...

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Saga of the Love of Genghis Khan's Daughter (2005)

The third part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film is dedicated to the formation of the Ancient Russian state and Eurasian culture under the rule of Genghis Khan. ...

Luna Papa (1999)

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a trave ...

Shanghai (1996)

People of an old abandoned neighborhood are waiting for the end of their district and a whole Soviet Union as well. ...

Abai (1995)

An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century. ...

The Fall of Otrar (1991)

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. ...

The Leg (1991)

The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning. ...

The Cannibal (1991)

Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment. ...

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of... (1990)

In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistr ...

Lord of Darkness (1990)

When the herdsman's son was born, the Great Ruler of the underworld, Erlik Khan, predicted to the newborn that he, having reached the age of seventeen, would be sacrificed to atone for human pride. But Mohammed — that's what his father called him — gre ...

Persecution (1989)

20s south of Kyrgyzstan. Platoon commander Abysh Isaev arrives at the military garrison. His task, together with the red commander Valentin Ugryumov, is to stop the bloodshed and destruction perpetrated by Shaanazar's Basmach detachment, and to return the ...

Sultan Beybars (1989)

The second 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 horde ...

The Sand-Storm (1989)

In this heavyhanded political allegory, set in the plains and mountains of Central Asia, a tribe of people led by the fanatical Mavrut (Vladimir Msrian) wanders about in the most desolate parts of this already desolate region in search of a mythical "Land ...

The Shelter for Majors (1988)

Who Are You, Horseman? (1987)

An English company is developing a gold deposit. Its representative, Allan Kane, is trying to hide some of the gold and take it abroad. In pursuit of the golden caravan, an unthinkable deadly battle unfolds. ...

Artemisia (1986)

Little Ergesh wants to help his sick grandfather buy expensive medicine. To earn the necessary money, he and the city guy Omash collect wormwood to deliver to the pharmacy. ...

The Deer Man (1985)

High in the mountains, the forester Aktan lives alone with his mute aunt in an abandoned village. People's lives seem wrong and vain to him. But he likes his own less and less. A collision with people who predationally exploit nature forces Actan to active ...

My Home on the Green Hills (1985)

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 re ...

The Descendant of the Snow Leopard (1984)

The Russian Descendant of the Snow Leopard is based on a famous Kirghizian folktale. Apparently the Kirghizian folks had plenty of time to tell this story: to print a full synopsis would result in a novelette. Essentially, the story involves a proud group ...

Fear of the Ninth Son, Oh Enemy (1984)

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 ...

House Under the Moon (1983)

About the fight against poaching in the camel-breeding state farm. The young worker Daut returned with his family from the city to his native land. It was difficult at first in the steppe without water, gas, light. Suddenly, the local driver Askerbek came ...

Goodbye, Medeo (1982)

The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high- ...

It's Time for Ringing Heat (1980)

The film is dedicated to the life of a modern village, raises current problems of agriculture. ...

Golden Autumn (1980)

The forty-year-old commentator, summing up his life and realizing that his well-being is purely external and essentially nothing significant has been done, leaves for his native village, where, he hopes, he will be able to take a step towards his true voca ...

A Taste of Bread (1979)

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

Alpamys Goes to School (1978)

A funny story of a six year old Kazakh boy who really wants to start going to school in order to join his seven year old friend. ...

Don Quixote of My Childhood (1978)

The parable is about a young man who lives in his imaginary world and gets into various funny situations. ...

On the Night of Lunar Eclipse (1978)

The film is based on the play of the same name by the national poet of Bashkortostan Mustai Karim. The events of the film take place in the XVII century. Drama from the history of the Bashkir people. ...

Once and for a Lifetime (1977)

The first post-revolutionary years in Kazakhstan, the period of formation of Soviet power. More than once, the bandits tried to deal with the singer of the people, the poet Erken, but could not silence him. It seemed that the earth itself kept him safe — ...

A Shot or It All Started on Saturday (1976)

Based on Kyr Bulychev's Sci-Fi story, a man acquires the ability to throw objects with precision. He tries to become a basketball player. ...