The Crying Steppe
MovieTitle | Ұлы дала зары |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Dec 11, 2020 |
Genre | Drama, History |
Director | Marina Kunarova |
Production country | Kazakhstan |
Production companies | Melograno Films, MG Productions |
Run time | 108 min. |
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.