Medel Maniyazov

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

Salia, an orphan, immediately after finishing her tenth year leaves her stepmother’s home, which she does not love, to a mining village to live with her uncle. On the road, she meets a handsome young man who works at the same mine as her uncle. Kind and sympathetic Azim helps the girl get a job and enroll in evening preparatory courses at the institute. Salia, completely inexperienced and deprived of human attention, takes simple human participation for something more. She is sure that this is a clear response to her first ardent love. But the young engineer loves Jamila and does not even think about another girl. By chance, having learned about the mutual love of Azim and Jamila, Salia experiences great grief, it seems to her that everyone has betrayed her and she is left alone again...

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.

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

A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements.

20s south of Kyrgyzstan. Platoon commander Abysh Isaev arrives at the military garrison. His task, together with the red commander Valentin Ugryumov, is to stop the bloodshed and destruction perpetrated by Shaanazar’s Basmach detachment, and to return the farmers to their homes.