The Crying Steppe
(2020)
★ 5.5 IMDb · 3 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 108 мин
Country: Kazakhstan
Director: Marina Kunarova
Cast: Дулыга Акмолда, Akylkhan Almassov, Sayazhan Kulymbetova, Adilet Zhangali, Rayana Daulet, Сафуан Шаймерденов
Plot
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.