The Crying Steppe (2020)

Don't ever forget where you come from

In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter's family from a Kazakh village in the highlands is trying to stay alive in the midst of the fierce winter and face a moral choice, to die as human beings or to survive at any cost, transgressing the human decency.

Cast (6)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Dulyga Akmolda

Maden

A

Akylkhan Almassov

Turar

S

Sayazhan Kulymbetova

Nuria

A

Adilet Zhangali

Iliyas

R

Rayana Daulet

Aikynum

Safuan Shaimerdenov

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