Akhmed Shamiyev
Acting
Biography
Akhmed Shamiyev July 11, 1908, Jarkent — June 14, 1983, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR. Uyghur Soviet actor and singer. People’s Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1969). Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1958). He was born into a poor peasant family. His artistic career began in 1925 in the Jarkent drama circle. From 1935 to 1983, he was an actor of the Uyghur Musical Drama Theater. He made his professional stage debut as Mukhpula in the musical drama Anarkhan by D. Asimov and A. Sadyrov, and later played the role of the farm laborer Seit in the same play. During the war years, he gained popularity as a performer of songs of the peoples of the USSR. He is the author of the songs Kazakhstan, Motherland, Kolkhoz, Whistle, My Love, and others. Since 1945, he had been a member of the Communist Party. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and USSR medals.
Known For
Kazakh scientist and traveler, Chokan Valikhanov studied at St. Petersburg University and was well known in Russia. When sent to war against the Kazakhs, Valikhanov was forced to make a choice between Tzar and native land.
His Time Will Come
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.
We Are From Semirechye
A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.
The End of Ataman
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A Provincial Romance
An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.
A Taste of Bread
1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is not numerous. The story of the film unfolds quickly, it is a typical "Ostern" — an oriental action movie: shooting, chase, dancing of beautiful girls, but at the same time, along the film line, there is a smell of mysterious gossip and repression with characters.
Worrisome Morning
Old shepherd Serkebai seeks a second lambing from his flock, but kolkhoz chairman Aisary, citing lack of pasture and water, urges slaughtering the sheep. Defying him, Serkebai leads the flock across the Syr Darya into the Kyzyl Kum desert with several kolkhoz workers and his daughter Marzhan. After days without finding a well, Serkebai gives leadership to Kundebai and departs alone to die in the sands, followed by the sheep. Searching for her father, Marzhan meets hydrogeologists drilling an artesian well, where she falls in love with geologist Imash. The team rescues Serkebai’s group, and water bursts from the well, forming a lake to which the entire kolkhoz soon relocates.