Japar Sadykov Movies

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...

A poetic cinematic legend based on an ancient Kyrgyz folk tale. The film tells the tragic story of the all-conquering love between the beautiful Ak...

The people around Tolen Mamytbekov, a driller in the geological team, didn’t think much of him — he was a disorganized man and fond of...

The forty-year-old commentator, summing up his life and realizing that his well-being is purely external and essentially nothing significant has been...

Kyrgyzstan, the 1920s. In a remote mountain village, against the will of the local elites and in defiance of centuries-old traditions, a...

At the center of the film is the character of Asan, a collective farm foreman. Asan is a principled man who makes many enemies among the lazy,...

About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.

The Russian Descendant of the Snow Leopard is based on a famous Kirghizian folktale. Apparently the Kirghizian folks had plenty of time to tell this...

Ulan follows a sailor whose marriage disintegrates and longs for his younger days on horseback