The Gift to Stalin
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| Directed by | Rustem Abdrashev |
| Written by | Pavel Finn |
| Produced by | Boris Cherdabayev, Aliya Uvalzhanova |
| Starring | Nurjuman Ikhtimbayev Dalen Shintemirov Yekaterina Rednikova Bakhtiar Khoja |
| Cinematography | Khasan Kidiraliev |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Countries | Kazakhstan Russia Poland Israel |
| Language | Russian |
The Gift to Stalin is a 2008 joint Kazakhstani/Russian/Polish/Israeli film by
Russian Jewish writer David Markish
, also portrayed in his trilogy A New World for Simon Ashkenazy.
The title, The Gift to Stalin, has two meanings. The first one Sasha’s dream He hopes that if he gives Stalin a gift, he will be able to see his parents again, not knowing that they have been killed. The second context is that in 1949 the Soviet government carried out a nuclear test (RDS-1) on Joseph Stalin’s 70th anniversary.[nb 1] When Sasha visited his Kazakh aul many years later, he found it destroyed by the nuclear explosion.[1]
Awards
- 2009: Grand Prix at the Busan International Film Festival
- 2009:Three awards at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Grand Prix, the best full feature, and best actor (Dalen Shintemirov) [2]
Notes
- ^ During Stalin's life, his official birth year was 1879.
References
- Korea Times
- ^ "2009 Nagrody i honorowe"
External links
- The Gift to Stalin at IMDb
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