Taraz

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Larry Charles

Cast

Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell

Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.

Runtime

1h 12m

Director

Darezhan Omirbayev

Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven't paid the rent. The orphans pack up their few possessions and go out to the country, where the family owns a small plot of land. The children set up camp, knowing they have to fend for themselves. But this solution is insecure, too: they are told, in ...

Runtime

1h 7m

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 pea...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Rustem Abdrashitov

Cast

Nurzhuman Ikhtymbaev, Bakhtiar Khoja, Yekaterina Rednikova

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the...

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Shaken Aimanov

Cast

Yeleubai Umurzakov, Murat Akhmadiev, Viktor Shevtsov