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This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. A young orphan rescues an orphaned wolf cub and lavishes considerable affection on it. His uncle, believing that this “softness” will result in the boy’s being unable to endure the rigors of life on the Kazakh steppes, savagely beats the cub in front of the boy. By the time the grown wolf is released into the wild, it has grown extremely ferocious and it returns and attacks the boy, perhaps because it perceives him as being weak, just as the boy’s uncle did.

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When Tolomush Okeev passed away at the age of 66 in late 2001, the Kirghiz Film Studio was renamed in his honor. Which is as it should be, because he was a powerfully gifted and dedicated artist who served his country and its film industry well. Okeev was one of the greatest outdoor filmmakers who ever lived: he deserves a place alongside Jean Epstein and Terrence Malick. Anyone can set up a camera in front of a mountaintop and get a majestic image. But Okeev filmed the Kirghiz mountains and deserts with an intimate knowledge and the keenest sensitivity. The action in his films is always keyed to the landscape in a way that appears effortless, no matter how painstakingly wrought: he knows every crack, every crevice, all the cruelty and all the beauty of a life lived under the open sky. This 1973 film, written by Andrei Konchalovsky, may well be Okeev’s masterpiece. It’s the story of a boy who raises a wolf cub, and learns quickly about savagery of the animal and human variety. No one beside Bresson has understood the essential character of an animal so well. And there are sequences here – a pack of wolves raiding a herd of sheep by night, a wolf hunt on horseback, and the snowscapes of the last section of the movie – that will make your hair stand on end. Warning: the films contains explicit scenes of violence to animals.

Lyutyy.AKA.The.Fierce.One.1974.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):Russian dub, English dub
Subtitles:English

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Children of the old herdsman Banaya been living in the city. However, the younger son, who had come on vacation, Bakai, wants to leave in the pasture, despite the fact that the boy had become accustomed to the city and loves school.

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What I especially liked about this film were the internal poetic resonances, one example of which would be the repeated use of ‘tunneling’ perspectives. One instance of this occurs at the end of the children’s race at the festival/picnic, this is echoed at the end of the film as the children ride through a long underpass tunnel on their way home.

There is use of ‘patterns of visual imagery’, (mainly with horses) traceable to the influence of Eizenstein, and not uncommon in Russian and Soviet cinema (I was reminded of the sheep herding scenes in one of Paradjanov’s films).

There is also a recurring visual commentary on the tension between the more traditional pastoral existence of the herdsmen and their modern Russian counterparts. This finds expression through scenes of the Grandfather releasing his eagle when the tribe strike camp and when he later catches site of a stuffed eagle atop a trailer at the construction workers camp, similarly when he ruefully observes dead fish, floating in the water following dynamiting by the construction workers, which also causes the tribesmen’s herd to stampede.

There is certainly a lot more going on here than the fairly basic ostensible narrative, and most of it is communicated visually with effective use of high and low camera angles, thoughtfully composed shots and recurring visual themes and motifs and set in stunningly photographed landscape.

870MB | 1h 14m | 576×288 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/86223C065E28207/Nebo_Nashego_Detstva_(The_Skies_of_Our_Childhood)(1966)_Dual_Audio.avi
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Language(s):Russian,Kyrgyz
Subtitles:English

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“Red Apple” – a chronicle of a few days in a small family, a story about the difficulties of human contacts, the complexity of love. The image of red apples – strong and clear, profound and lucid. Okeyev’s “apple” bears a special meaning. Juices of the earth and sun, it is a lyrical symbol of happiness and harmony. (kyrgyzfilm.kg)

Following the critical success of his movie about the harshness of Kazakh life The Fierce One, director Tolomush Okeyev helmed The Red Apple, which chronicles several days in the life of a Kirghizian family. In the story, an artist imagines a feminine figure with such intensity that his relationship with that figure threatens his marriage. The level-headed actions of his daughter help him to harmonize the two realities. (Clarke Fountain, allmovie.com)

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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The Russian Descendant of the Snow Leopard is based on a famous Kirghizian folktale. Apparently the Kirghizian folks had plenty of time to tell this story: to print a full synopsis would result in a novelette. Essentially, the story involves a proud group of highland hunters called the Snow Leopards, who in order to survive a brutal winter must request help from the Lowland people. The price for this assistance is the hand of the Snow Leopard’s daughter, who is promised in marriage to a wealthy Lowland trader. During the Springtime wedding celebration, the trader becomes fascinated by a stranger who wins all the athletic contests. This “male” contestant turns out to be a woman, who has arrived to seek freedom for her imprisoned husband. The subsequent romance between the trader and the beautiful stranger results in disaster and bloodshed for both the Snow Leopards and the Lowlanders. Originally titled Potomok Belongo Barssa Descendent of the Snow Leopard won a Silver Bear award for director Tolomus Okeyev at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Language(s):Russian
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During World Word II, the difficult construction of a railroad through the Boom ravine at Kant-Rybachie. One of the construction workers then takes a train ride along the road he helped build.

314MB | 16m 49s | 737×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/31FC26A1CA09203/Boom.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Kyrgyz, Russian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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