Movies: Kuman Tastanbekov

The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders....

The heroine of the film Karagoz Alimbayeva comes from the village, where she worked as a zoo technician for five years, to the city to enter the veterinary institute. Having brilliantly passed the profile subjects, Karagoz gets a three on the last ph...

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....

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...

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 oth...

Teenager Mukai spends most of the year in a remote Kyrgyz village with his grandmother while his parents work in a secluded mountain area. At thirteen, he is considered an adult by local standards. Mukai helps adults with logging, visits his father i...

A biographical film about the life of Gani Muratbaev, the founder of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR ....

Akkyz (The White Girl) is a modern retelling of an ancient Kazakh legend about the creation of the world from the eggs of the Sacred White Swan. Nine-year old Aruzhan lives in harmony with nature on a deserted island, together with her mother and br...

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 abili...