
The Gift to Stalin
Drama
Overview
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
Top Cast


Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev
Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev
Kasym
Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev
Kasym
Dalen Shintemirov
Dalen Shintemirov
Sashka
Dalen Shintemirov
Sashka
David Markish
David Markish
Aleksandr Povzner
David Markish
Aleksandr Povzner


Yekaterina Rednikova
Yekaterina Rednikova
Verka
Yekaterina Rednikova
Verka
Waldemar Szczepaniak
Waldemar Szczepaniak
Jerzy Dąbrowski
Waldemar Szczepaniak
Jerzy Dąbrowski


Aleksandr Bashirov
Aleksandr Bashirov
Major
Aleksandr Bashirov
Major


Bakhtiyar Kozha
Bakhtiyar Kozha
Balgabay
Bakhtiyar Kozha
Balgabay


Erbolat Toguzakov
Erbolat Toguzakov
Faty
Erbolat Toguzakov
Faty


Kasym Zhakibayev
Kasym Zhakibayev
Shaman
Kasym Zhakibayev
Shaman


Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yursky
Narrator (voice)
Sergei Yursky
Narrator (voice)
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