Moisey LEVIN
Моисей ЛЕВИН
Moïsseï LEVINE
USSR, 1938, 84mn 
Black and white, fiction
Amangeldy
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Амангельды

 

 Amangueldy

 Amangeldy

 
Directed by : Moisey LEVIN (Моисей ЛЕВИН)
Writing credits : Vsevolod IVANOV (Всеволод ИВАНОВ), Gabit MUSREPOV (Габит МУСРЕПОВ)
 
Cast
Elubaï UMURZAKOV (Елубай УМУРЗАКОВ) ...Amangeldy
Kanabek BAYSETOV (Канабек БАЙСЕИТОВ)
Kurmanbek DZHANDARBEKOV (Курманбек ДЖАНДАРБЕКОВ)
Seraly KOZHAKUMOV (Сералы КОЖАМКУЛОВ)
Kalibek KUANYSHPAYEV (Калибек КУАНЫШПАЕВ)
Shara ZHIENKULOVA (Шара ЖИЕНКУЛОВА)
 
Cinematography : Kecho NAZARIANTS (Хечо НАЗАРЬЯНЦ)
Production design : Mariya FATEYEVA (Мария ФАТЕЕВА), Moisey LEVIN (Моисей ЛЕВИН)
Music : Mikhail GNESIN (Михаил ГНЕСИН)
Production : Lenfilm, Kazakfilm
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
In 1916 a new Russian governor comes to the Kazak steppes where several tribes converge. Among them, Amangueldy Imanov, an idealist Kazak leader, stands out. Disgusted by the way his comrades are treated, he tries for solutions to this unbearable situation and finds them in Lenin’s thoughts. Amangueldy leads the revolt against the despotic landowners and forms an alliance with the Bolsheviks against the Kazak clans subjected to the Tsar.
In Soviet Union this film was considered as the beginning of cinematic art in Kazakhstan. To be more specific, one should say today that it was the beginning of Kazak drama in cinema. The film was commissioned by Moscow, produced by central studio Lenfilm and directed by Leningrad based film-maker Moisei Levin, but it is the first film based on a Kazak scenario. Baimbet Mailin, one of the scriptwriters, will be among the victims of the 1937 repression and will be shot.
Source : Festival de Vesoul, 2012
 

Commentaries and bibliography
О фильме Амангельды, Rostislav YURENYEV, Госкиноиздать, 1938
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival du film kazakh, Paris (France), 2020
- Vesoul International Asiatic Film Festival, Vesoul (France), 2012