We Are From Semirechye (1959)
Near the city of Verny, surrounded by Cossack patrols, the paths of three friends diverge. Instead of his native aul, Nartai finds only ruins. The death of his mother, the disappearance of his fiancée, and the oppression from the stanitsa ataman — all this forces Nartai to join the revolutionary struggle. Hunger and poverty, and pleas for bread greet the blacksmith Azim in his native Zhetysu. A Cossack horse kills Azim’s little son with a kick of its hoof when the boy reaches for scattered grains of bread. Grief turns the blacksmith into the leader of a starving, rebellious crowd. The fate of the third soldier is not easy either. Pavel Zernov, pausing only briefly at the bedside of his dying little son, hastens to rejoin his comrades who have gone underground.
Directors: Aleksei Ochkin, Sultan Khodzhikov.
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Kenenbai Kozhabekov as |
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Akhmed Shamiyev as |
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Gennadi Karnovich-Valua as |
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Kurmanbek Zhandarbekov as |
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Nurmukhan Zhanturin as |
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Nikolay Mikhaylov as |
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Aleksey Glazyrin as |
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Apollon Ivanov as |
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Viktor Akhromeyev as |
| Directing | Aleksei Ochkin | Director |
| Directing | Sultan Khodzhikov | Director |
| Writing | Dmitriy Snegin | Writer |
| Writing | Samuil Ulanovskiy | Writer |
| Camera | Iskander Tynyshpaev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Kulakhmet Khodzhikov | Production Design |
| Sound | Nikolai Kryukov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Sadyk Muhamedzhanov | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | A. Khlynova | Assistant Director |
| Sound | U. Davletgaliev | Sound Director |
| Writing | K. Shangitbayev | Lyricist |
| Camera | S. Sharipov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Askhat Ashrapov | Camera Operator |
| Visual Effects | V. Linkov | VFX Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | A. Koval | VFX Director of Photography |
| Art | Viktor Lednyov | Set Decoration |
| Directing | I. Ospanov | First Assistant Director |
| Editing | K. Baspakova | Editor |
| Directing | A. Guss | Second Assistant Director |
| Writing | R. Tamarina | Script Editor |
| Writing | O. Bondarenko | Script Editor |
| Writing | P. Vakhalov | Script Consultant |
| Writing | T. Yeleuov | Script Consultant |
| Sound | Gaziz Dugashev | Conductor |
| Production | Fyodor Lelyukh | Executive Producer |