The Crying Steppe

In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter's family from a Kazakh village in the highlands is trying to stay alive in the midst of the fierce winter and face a moral choice, to die as human beings or to survive at any cost, transgressing the human decency.

Cast

Dulyga Akmolda

Maden

Akylkhan Almassov

Turar

Sayazhan Kulymbetova

Nuria

Adilet Zhangali

Iliyas

Rayana Daulet

Aikynum