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The Land Where Winds Stood Still

Nov 16, 2023 · 1h 48m
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Drama
History

PLOT

Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. Starving people ravenously eat donkeys and their weaker comrades. Frantic, raw, gripping, and cannibalistic western inspired by testimonies of the historical Great Famine of the 1930s. Ruthless Jupar with her two boys Jolan and Boshay runs for survival to reach her childhood village with hopes to find living relatives. A mother with no tears to cry endures rains, sandstorms, feverish famine, poisoned crops, hungry vultures, rotten meat, and greedy betrayals. Jupar will have to steal, cut throats, and protect her and others’ children to witness fates worse than death.

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CAST

Zhanar Shokpanova
Salikh Beisenbai
Meirzhan Musakozha
Sagizbai Karabalin
Ersin Kalybaeva
Directed by Ardak Amirkulov

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Status
Released
Original language
KK
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Production
ArdFilm, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakh Cinema
Country
KZ
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