The Crying Steppe

Name: The Crying Steppe
Director: Marina Kunarova
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2020-12-11
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Dulyga Akmolda, Akylkhan Almassov, Sayazhan Kulymbetova, Adilet Zhangali, Rayana Daulet

Directed by Marina Kunarova

Drama

History

20201h 48m5.5

Overview

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.