Muratbek Ryskulov

La guerre civile en Russie. Un détachement de l'Armée Rouge en mission de reconnaissance dans les sables désertiques d'Asie centrale. Marioutka est l'unique femme au milieu de ces rudes soldats. Elle en est aussi le premier tireur d'élite et a déjà inscrit quarante tués dans les rangs adverses à son tableau de chasse. Au cours de l'opération, les rouges s'emparent d'un lieutenant de la Garde Blanche. Le prisonnier sera la quarante-et-unième victime de Marioutka. En attendant, les voici seuls face à l'immensité des sables, du ciel et de la mer, en proie à des sentiments aussi violents que contradictoires...

Directed by Vasili Pronin.

Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city. When his youngest son pays him a visit, Bakai wants him to stay and help with the rigors of rural living.

Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing, he, having to choose a tragic solution.

About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.

A love story of young Altynay and young Asake. Having graduated from the college, Altynay returns to his native collective farm in the Tyan-Shan highlands. Lovers are going to get married. Ashirbay, Asake’s father, is planning a wedding as soon as his son heads the collective farm. But unexpectedly, Altynay is elected as chairman. The girl, contrary to the ancient customs of the highlands, vigorously takes up business. She does a lot of good deeds within a short period of time. Everyone began to respect the young chairman. Only Ashirbay harbors a grudge. And once, when in a blizzard he overtook a flock of sheep, he decided to lead the sheep to the abyss. Asake, accompanying his father, saves the collective farm flocks of sheep, and he perishes...

The end of the 1920s — the beginning of the 1930s in Kyrgyzstan. Parts of the Red Army are waging an uncompromising struggle with basmachi in Central Asia. The film tells about the formation of the character of the young Kyrgyz hunter Djura, who found himself in a swirling whirlpool of revolutionary events that swept the Pamirs. It shows the hard way from a simple young hunter, entangled in centuries of prejudice, to a conscious, seasoned in many battles with the Basmachi mature fighter, who believed in the great ideas of the revolution.

A young singer from Buryat-Mongolian collective farm is sent to Moscow to study. Despite his strong voice, he fails a music exam. After the police station he becomes a soloist in a choir and a police sergeant, while studying music reading and dreaming of a conservatory.

"Worship the Fire" is a 1972 feature by Tolomush Okeev.

In this fantasy film inspired by a Kirghiz fairy-tale and Wilhelm Hauff's "Das kalte Herz," a powerful sorcerer puts a spell on a beautiful dancer, rendering her incapable of love until an infatuated shovel operator comes along.