Chingiz Aitmatov

The White Ship (Russian: Belyy parokhod) is a 1976 Soviet drama film directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.

This is a sad love story of a lorry driver who fell in love with a beautiful, young village girl... (IMDB Comments)

Dzhamiliya lives in a kirghizian village. She follows their parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new husband has to leave the village. While being alone Dzhamiliya meets the returning soldier Daniyar and falls in love with him. (imdb)

It's young love on the steppes in this romantic fable based on a 1956 story by Chingiz Aitmatov. The movie was filmed on the beautiful Kirghiz steppes. The story reflects the wistful memories of Seit, a N.Y. painter as he reminisces about his youthful, innocent love affair with Jamilia back in the Kirghiz countryside during the 1940's. (Sandra Brennan, Rovi)

Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. (imdb)

On a mountain track Tanabaj ride a horse Gulsary. Gulsary is very old, and this way, probably, will be last for him. Tanabaj understands it, but cannot abandon a horse after all with Gulsary all his life is connected... (castingshadows)

Heat was Shepitko's diploma feature, her extraordinary talent underlined by its unprecedented success, winning prizes at the Leningrad and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals. It was also made in gruelling conditions on the barren steppes, the young director falling ill and having to direct from a stretcher. The story fuses serious political drama and cowboy showdown as an idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm, only to clash with its authoritarian, Stalinist leader. (KG)

A strong-willed woman leaves her unhappy, arranged marriage and elopes while her husband is fighting in World War II.

Tanabay is a proud Kazakh war hero and loyal Communist who is pressured into taking a position as a herdsman in a collective farm in the Stalinist era after WWII. The pride and joy of the collective is a beautiful stallion named Gulsary. After Gulsary wins a race, the new commissar of the collective lays claim to the beloved and headstrong horse, which leads to a battle of a wills... (imdb)

In the name of progress, the old folk traditions and ethnic rituals of the mountainous Kirghiz country are ruthlessly suppressed. (imdb)