Chinghiz Aitmatov Trailers
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Chingiz Aitmatov (December 12, 1928 – June 10, 2008) was a world-renowned Kyrgyz author, screenwriter, and diplomat, widely regarded as one of the most influential and celebrated figures in Central Asian and Soviet literature.
Born in the village of Sheker in the Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan, Aitmatov wrote masterfully in both Kyrgyz and Russian. He achieved international fame with his 1958 novella Jamila, which was famously described by French poet Louis Aragon as "the world's most beautiful love story." His other literary masterpieces include The First Teacher, Farewell, Gulsary!, The White Ship, and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.
Aitmatov played a monumental role in the golden era of cinema, deeply shaping the "Kyrgyz Miracle" movement. A vast majority of his novels and novellas were adapted into critically acclaimed feature films, for many of which he personally wrote or co-wrote the screenplays. Beyond his artistic legacy, he served as a prominent statesman and diplomat, representing Kyrgyzstan as an ambassador to the European Union, NATO, and UNESCO. His profound humanistic narratives, bridging traditional nomadic culture with global existential themes, continue to resonate worldwide.
Most Popular Chinghiz Aitmatov Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
31 December 1995
It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas'.
05 August 2003
The story of the suffering of a boy who is put on a sheepskin coat and gradually becomes a man-eater.
05 June 1989
In this heavyhanded political allegory, set in the plains and mountains of Central Asia, a tribe of people led by the fanatical Mavrut (Vladimir Msrian) wanders about in the most desolate parts of this already desolate region in search of a mythical "Land of Happiness.
01 December 1969
The story of Tanabai the blacksmith, father of three children, who upon his return from war became a herdsman, and his tragic love for the soldier’s widow Byubyudzhan.
02 January 1975
A chronicle of a few days in a small family, a story about the difficulties of human contacts, the complexity of love.
02 October 1961
Young Daniyar drives his car along the mountain roads of the Tien Shan. One day, returning from a trip, he meets Asel.
18 November 1977
İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya.
31 October 1965
In post-Civil War 1923, a young Red Army veteran is sent to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Kyrgyzstan to establish the first school.
15 July 1991
On a frozen and forbidding shoreline of northern Sakhalin Island, to the north of Japan, live the Nyvkh people, whose austere, heroic struggle for survival depends solely on their ability to hunt the seal and to fish.
01 March 1968
In a remote Kyrgyz village, a mother navigates daily life as her family is drawn into the upheaval of World War II.
10 July 2008
This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains.
25 July 2020
Based on the story of Chingiz Aitmatov "The White Steamer". In a forest cordon, lost high in the mountains, an old man and an old woman and his daughter live with their family - a husband and a seven-year-old son named Shambala, which means "boy-candle" or "boy who radiates light.
01 January 1994
In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.
13 October 1969
In a remote Kyrgyz village, Dzhamilya follows her parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him.
01 January 1984
Film adaptation of the Kyrgyz folk legend of Raimaly-aga, based on Chingiz Aitmatov's interpretation from his “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.
04 June 1963
An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kyrgyz steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
12 January 1989
A few former pupils of primary school teacher Aishi-Aly meet again for a party on the top of the sacred mountain that dominates their village.
22 November 1976
Longing to discover his father, a sad young boy dreams of becoming a fish and swimming to the great white ship he sees traversing Lake Issyk.
18 February 1980
Sultanmurat is a 14 year old boy who lives in a small Kyrgyz village. All the men have gone off to war so he is left alone to tend to the horses who are weak with hunger.
02 January 1966
Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city.
19 March 1973
Ilyas loves driving through difficult mountain routes. It is here, in the mountains, that he meets Asel, falling in love at first sight.
27 August 2008
Tanabay is a proud Kazakh war hero and loyal Communist who is pressured into taking a position as a herdsman in a collective farm in the Stalinist era after WWII.
02 January 1995
During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to Islamic rituals in a sacred place is denied by the Soviet authorities, who use that place for rocket testing.
01 May 1991
To avoid severe punishment for desertion, a man hides in the mountains near his native village.
31 December 1989
Just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, perestroika gave Chinghiz Aitmatov the opportunity to reflect on the goals and ideals of socialism and how it itself had denied them.
20 June 1982
In this infinite space, we currently know of only one planet where life exists. We know of only one history of civilization.
