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The Land Where Winds Stood Still (2023)
Directed by Ardak Amirkulov
Drama, History · 1h 48m
Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. Starving people ravenously eat donkeys and their weaker comrades. Frantic, raw, gripping, and cannibalistic western inspired by testimonies of the historical Great Famine of the 1930s. Ruthless Jupar with her two boys Jolan and Boshay runs for survival to reach her childhood village with hopes to find living relatives. A mother with no tears to cry endures rains, sandstorms, feverish famine, poisoned crops, hungry vultures, rotten meat, and greedy betrayals. Jupar will have to steal, cut throats, and protect her and others’ children to witness fates worse than death.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ardak Amirkulov
- Writer
- Ardak Amirkulov
- Director of Photography
- Aleksandr Rubanov
- Producer
- Ardak Amirkulov
Details
- Original title
- Жел тоқтаған жер
- Release date
- 2023-11-16
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- KK
- Spoken languages
- Kazakh
- Countries
- Kazakhstan
- Production
- ArdFilm, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakh Cinema