Darkul Kuyukova

Feature made for Kyrgyz television by Melis Ubukeyev (White Mountains).

Diouchen, un ancien soldat de l'Armée rouge plein de ferveur, s'installe dans un village kirghize pour y instruire les paysans, mais se heurte rapidement à leur scepticisme et à leurs moqueries.

Kemel, un jeune diplômé de l’école, se rend dans une partie isolée des steppes pour travailler dans un petit camp agricole communautaire.

Two teenagers, Kasym and Liza, are trying to stop a group of criminals and helping police.

A large village high in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan has become almost deserted. Not only the three old men who are protecting the empty houses, but also the young guy, a demobilized soldier, aches for him. And why don’t people return to such wonderful places where life is cleaner and healthier than in cities?..

Longing to discover his father, a sad young boy dreams of becoming a fish and swimming to the great white ship he sees traversing Lake Issyk. Lost in his dreams, and buoyed by the pagan tales of his Central Asian grandfather, he feels a close communion with nature: so much so that when a hunter kills a stag, he too takes a final, liberating leap.

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.