Jeruiyq (The Promised Land)
The film by
director Slambek Tauyekel. The screenplay is based on Lavrentiy Son’s play named
‘Memory” dedicated to 60th year since Korean deportation. It is based on
childhood memories of the playwright. The main antagonist – energetic head of
kolkhoz (collective farm) Orynbai, played by actor Bulat Abdilmanov, has a
prototype from the kolkhoz where Lavrentiy was born on 2.2.1941. “It was a
person who always suffered for his good initiatives. But it’s thanks to such
people like him, the deported people could survive and became a part of
Kazakhstani people,” - said Lavrentiy
Son. The film tells the story of those ethnicities that have been
deported in hundreds thousands to Kazakhstan from Far East, Caucasus, Volga
region, the story of their losses and their new life on Kazakh
land.
Scriptwriters: Lavrentiy Son, Slambek Tauyekel.
Directors of photography: Pavel Kazakov,
Aleksander Kostylev. Composer: Yakov Khan.
Production design: Juliya Levitskaya and Eldar Shibanov.
Cast: Bulat Abdilmanov, Dagun
Omaev, Nurqanat Jaqypbai, An Chang Hen, Eduard Pak, Tatjana Tsoi, Mary Li,
Nazgul Qarabalina, Sergei Popov, Erjan Nurymbet, Baglan Abdraiymov, Tlektes
Meiramov, Raihan Aitqojanova, Tamara Qosybaeva, Dariga Kushekbaeva, Dulyga, and
others.
Kazakhfilm named after Shaken Aimanov, 2011.
Running time: 115 min.
In Kazakh and Russian with English
subtitles.
The screening will take place at SRH on Saturday February 15, at 5pm.
The film will be introduced and commented on by Alma
Kunanbaeva.
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