Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

La voix des steppes (2014)

A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so much that he loses his ability to speak. Once he meets an old Kazak ...

Fiery River (2013)

The second part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev's student years, about the most important stages of his personality formation set on historical events, when the future of Kazakhstan's industry was being built in the ste ...

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. ...

Late Love (2010)

In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter what. They do not suspect that soon they will have to get into the whirlpool of incredible, but fun adventures. ...

Seker (2009)

Seker is a girl who was raised as a son by a father who wanted his first child to be a boy as tradition in the countryside family demands. When Seker approaches the age of adolescence she faces a mandate from the local school: put on a dress or don't retur ...

The Gift to Stalin (2008)

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 tr ...

Patchwork Quilt (2007)

The five–year-old hero of the film, a city boy Kenzhe, finds himself in the village with his grandparents, while his father is sorting out trying to establish his business. Here are the key moments of Kenje's growing up, full of vivid impressions. ...

Notes of a Wayfarer (2006)

A blind old man lives in a lost way station. He intuitively determines the condition of the railway tracks, which are monitored by his son. Every month, a track meter equipped with state-of-the-art technology passes through the stop, but its readings diffe ...

Day Watch (2006)

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event. ...

Steppe Express (2005)

A way station is lost in the boundless Kazakh steppe. A wayfarer lives in a small house with his daughter Saule. ...

Night Watch (2004)

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light gov ...

The House by the Salt Lake (2004)

The film is based on the complex intersections of human destinies during the Patriotic War. The family of the headmaster of the school, Turlyzhan Zhanakov, with their participation and care for disadvantaged people, show the high moral values inherent in K ...

Listen If It's Raining... (1999)

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov's stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement. ...

Aksuat (1997)

A Kazakh villager has to take care of his pregnant sister-in-law after his brother is thrown in jail. ...

Youth of Dzhambul (1996)

About the great akyn of the Kazakh steppes of Dzhambul (1846-1945). ...

Allazhar (1996)

The film tells the story of Azat, a participant in the first mass patriotic demonstrations in the USSR, who was imprisoned and subjected to abuse by investigators and prison guards. Azat's prototype was Qayrat Rysqulbekov. ...

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. ...

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 ...

The Touch (1989)

On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically. ...

The Shelter for Majors (1988)

A Wolf Cub Among People (1988)

Story of a rough little boy in Kazakh society in the last years of the USSR, owes something to the Italian neo realist movement of the 1940s. ...

The Tale of the Beautiful Aisulu (1987)

One day, while hunting, the young khan Tauekel met the beautiful Aisula, the shepherd's daughter, and brought her to the palace, soon celebrating a magnificent wedding. Aisula was not interested in palace intrigues. The girl fed snow-white pigeons, took ca ...

A Man on a Motorcycle (1986)

A young miner Ahan is fond of photo hunting. During one of the trips to the mountains, he photographed poachers at the crime scene. Despite threats and blackmail, Ahan exposes the criminals... ...

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 First (1985)

First Cavalry (1984)

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" ...

By the Field's Curb (1982)

The famous striker of the capital's football team Askar Temirov, having said goodbye to big sports, returns to his hometown to train the regional team. ...

Red Yurt (1982)

During the years of collectivization, the campaign team "Red Yurt" arrived in a remote Kazakh village. ...

The Great Samoyed (1982)

The eventful history of Tyko Vylka, the first Nenets artist, cartographer, polar explorer, participant in World War II, chairman of the Novaya Zemlya Island Council. ...

Chief Designer (1980)

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII. ...

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. ...

Hawthorn (1979)

About the Soviet man, his honesty, intransigence with evil. ...

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. ...

The Choice (1975)

Forest Ballad (1972)

Winter is Not a Field Season (1972)

Kariev cannot defend his PhD thesis because he does not have the necessary theoretical basis for his idea. Young geologists - Kurov, Mukhamedov and Saraev, who worked in the geological party under the leadership of Kariev, help him, showing the ability to ...

Lady Zhibek (1972)

Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh nation had its own Khan and each tried to supersede the other. Th ...

White Square (1971)

A young boxer named Kuat, who is brought up in the ring by a wise and demanding trainer, achieves considerable success and becomes a good athlete. He finds his happiness in great love... ...

At Red Stones Outpost (1970)

The film takes place near the border outpost "Red Stones". Three guys: the grandson of a herdsman, his cousin, who came on vacation from the city and the daughter of the head of the frontier post, met by chance in the Kazakh border steppes, where they spen ...

The End of Ataman (1970)

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. ...

The Song of Manshuk (1969)

The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for brave ...

Road of a Thousand Miles (1968)

Commissar Ali-Akbar travels a thousand miles across the desert with his international detachment, trying to deliver weapons to the Red Army during the civil war in Kazakhstan. ...

Journey to Childhood (1968)

The writer Bektas-agha, arriving in his native village, remembers his childhood: his mother died early, his careless father, who married the beautiful Kulimbala, the teacher Sagatbai. It was a time of collectivization. Bai and his henchmen, playing on the ...

Worrisome Morning (1968)

1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is not numerous. The story of the film unfolds quickly, it is a typical "Ostern" — an oriental action movie: shooting, chase, dancing of beautiful girls, but ...