Videoteca

location_onAlma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSRpublicKZ

Martha I Love You 2008
Several intertwined stories that occur in Mexico City

Borscht from French Frogs 1999
Viktor and Volodya own shares in the same company. Victor has a happy family, wife, children, and Volodya has never taken place in his personal life and, besides, he has always been in love with Victor's wife, Alina. Taking advantage of the fact that Victor borrowed a huge amount of money, he corners him and threatens him, and then orders the brutal murder of his partner. Soon, the inconsolable Alina finds a terrible film of her husband's execution and prepares for revenge...

Snowstormy Station 1995
During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to Islamic rituals in a sacred place is denied by the Soviet authorities, who use that place for rocket testing.

Before Dawn 1994
The tragic story of the life of the Dehkan Iskander and his family, engaged in the cultivation of silkworms.

All That Really Matters 1992 star_border 3.5
Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992

Somebody Else's Game 1991
The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...

The Beloved 1991 star_border 4
Based on the novel by Prosper Merime "Mateo Falcone".

Surzhekey: Angel of Death 1991 star_border 5
Story of a small Kazakh community in the 1930s terrorized by a Red Army soldier whose task it is to force them to collectivize and to eliminate “kulaks.”

Blessed Bukhara 1991
The events of the film take place in the 50s in one of the most beautiful cities in the world -blessed Bukhara. This is a story about street poets living in abandoned cemeteries, in mosques, on the roofs of houses.

The Cannibal 1991
Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.

The Eastern Corridor, or the Software Racket... 1990 star_border 6.5
In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistribution of zones of influence of bandit groups.

I Won't Forget, I Won't Forgive 1990
The daughter of the hero of the film urgently needs the help of a qualified doctor. He has the cherished address in his hands. The one to whom he is already rushing across the city recognizes him immediately. But now she's an obstetrician—gynecologist, and she's going to have a hard night.

Stepan Guslyakov's Harem 1990
The husband of a terminally ill Claudia falls in love with a neighbor, Marisha, who helps him with the housework in the absence of his wife. And a year and a half later, Claudia returns from the hospital.

Who Are You, Ellie? 1990
He has an instant reaction and an accurate eye, strong muscles and a cold mind. His friends call him simply Ellie, and the "fathers of the city" are behind him, as if behind a stone wall. However, he is not the master of his fate either...

Lord of Darkness 1990
When the herdsman's son was born, the Great Ruler of the underworld, Erlik Khan, predicted to the newborn that he, having reached the age of seventeen, would be sacrificed to atone for human pride. But Mohammed — that's what his father called him — grew up kind and brave. The young man managed to force the Lord of Darkness to change his destiny.

Dinosaurs of the Twentieth Century 1990
Returning to his native village, a demobilized paratrooper learns that his brother has become a victim of a drug mafia. He decides to avenge his death and goes to the city...

Mite 1990 star_border 7
Police captain Adil Akhtanov, nicknamed the Tick, is suspected of murder — these are the evidence and testimony of the defendant in the next case, which was led by the captain. Nevertheless, Akhtanov's immediate boss instructs him to conduct an unofficial investigation into the death of traffic police officers. Tick takes up a new case — and very soon passes sentence to his boss, the head of the mafia...

Purification 1990
The film is based on the story by L. Andreev "The Life of Vasily of Thebes" about the fate of the village priest Vasily, who, after going through a great many misfortunes, renounces God in order to regain his true faith through even greater grief.

Edge 1989
Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her loneliness.

Horses in the Ocean 1989 star_border 1
A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers