Yeleubai Umurzakov

Where the Mountains are White (1973)

Fate did not particularly favor old Myrzagali, and he did not like people. But he cherished his white camel, Ariana, and doted on her. And when he got sick and went to the hospital, Ariana cut the veins of her eyes so that she would accept a local male and ...

A Special Day (1972)

The clash of two styles of approaches to people, science, and business is the main conflict of the film. Both central characters - the head of the Altai complex space station and the experiment leader Andrei - are people devoted to science. But Altai is an ...

The Night at 14th Parallel (1972)

Red Poppies of Issyk-Koul (1971)

Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border. ...

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 the Foot of Naizatas (1969)

The prototypes of the heroes of this TV movie were the residents of the state farm named after him. Toraighyrova. ...

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. ...

The Land of Our Fathers (1966)

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally fi ...

Beardless Deceiver (1965)

Aldar Kose is not a name, but a nickname. Aldar means deceiver, Kos - beardless. And what was the name of this man in fact, and whether he lived at all, no one will say for sure. But in every Kazakh village, in every yurt in the mountainous Dzhailau, they ...

Where the Edelweiss Blooms (1965)

Edelweiss trees grow high in the mountains, at the border outpost. One day, the flower caused a false alarm, a test that Sergeant Sundetbaev and the entire outpost endured. But the alarms weren't always false. ...

Plane Tree on the Rock (1965)

High in the mountains, a lonely plane tree grows on a rock. The legend says that in ancient times, the beautiful girl Aisulu threw herself from this cliff, not wanting to reconcile herself with fate and get the unloved one. So, as a memory of her, a beauti ...

People of Blue Rivers (1959)

Mergen, an engineer, returns to Tuva, dreaming of working for its betterment. Tuva is developing, with new houses and electricity reaching remote areas. However, the chairman of the collective farm, Elbek, opposes building a bridge across the turbulent mou ...

Return to Earth (1959)

A herdsman leaves his flock for the city, dreaming of becoming a cosmonaut, but he is rejected. Working a small job in a film studio, he is singled out for his looks and becomes a stand-in for a star actor. ...

Daughter of the Steppes (1954)

The first years of Soviet power. The rich Aktanbai decides to steal his flocks abroad. However, only the shepherd Malbagar knows the secret paths in the mountains. Therefore, Aktanbai, giving the orphan girl Nurzhamal to Malbagar as a wife, demands to indi ...

Golden Horn (1948)

High in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau there is an experimental station of the Kazakh Institute of Animal Husbandry. A young scientist, Jacques Dosanov (Shaken Aimanov), is working on breeding a new breed of sheep, trying to cross a merino sheep and ...

Songs of Abai (1946)

The screen adaptation of the novel "Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov recreates the story of prominent Kazakh poet and philosopher Abay Kunanbayev. The famous Kazakh poet became friends with the Russian exile, scientist Nifont Dolgopolov. Under the influence of thei ...

Rajchan (1940)

About the emancipation of Kazakh women under Soviet rule. ...

Amangeldy (1938)

In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose mandatory military service upon the native Kazakhs. A popular uprising begins against the Tsarist empire. A Kazakh hero, Amangeldy Imanov, leads the revolt an ...