Rustem Abdrashov

Movies

The Leader's Way. Breaking The Vicious Circle
Director
The film tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev who went into politics and made efforts to improve the existing at that time difficult situation in Kazakhstan’s metallurgy.
The Leader's Way. Iron Mountain
Script
“Iron Mountain” traces socialization and personhood development of the future nation’s leader, describing the epoch in which it took place, mostly the 50-60s last century.
The Leader's Way. Fiery River
Director
"Fiery River" traces socialization and personhood development of the future nation’s leader, describing the epoch in which it took place, mostly the 50-60s last century.
The Leader's Way. Iron Mountain
Director
“Iron Mountain” traces socialization and personhood development of the future nation’s leader, describing the epoch in which it took place, mostly the 50-60s last century.
The Leader's Way. The Sky Of My Childhood
Director
The first Kazakhstan President's childhood and youth.
The Gift to Stalin
Director
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
Begushchaya mishen
Production Design
Sanzhar finds himself in very tricky situation after the December events in 1986.
The Island of Rebirth
Director
A poetic elegy about the first teen-age romance on eve of the Aral sea catastrophe.