Rakhmetulla Salmenov

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The film consists of three novellas that criticize bribery, indifference, callousness, parasitism, and other human vices. "The Necklace." Aldan's mother left him to guard her ice cream cart while she went to the store to buy a necklace... "The Newlyweds." Sholpan received an anonymous letter and went to her husband's construction site to investigate the situation... "Believe It or Not." The protagonist of this novella is a sheep. Funny things happen to him...

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A story about a funny boy named Kozha who always gets into troubles.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Bai Nurtaza hopes to find in the young poet, ambitious and not indifferent to female beauty, a loyal ally in the fight against the Soviet government. Taking advantage of Musa's weakness, unable to resist temptations, he completely subordinates him to his influence...

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Zhaukhaz' father

Zhaukhaz leaves her father's house, as custom dictates and her stepmother wishes. Zhaukhaz does not love her future husband, but she does not dare to break the old custom. Zhaukhaz, along with her husband and his parents, lives in a remote high-altitude pasture. The entire family tends a flock of collective farm sheep. The daily life of the shepherd's family is harsh, and the work is monotonous: cleaning the kennels, feeding the sheep, and, on sunny and quiet days, taking them out for grazing. The winter house is surrounded by silence. Sometimes it seems scary. On one of those days, when she fell in love with a young machine operator from Tanabay's neighboring brigade, Zhauhaz realized how vast life was and how fragile the bonds of old customs that tied her to an unloved man were.

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.