This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
The film is about a Turkmen who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.
Maya, who grew up in the city, comes to the old village of Dash-Kala. A young teacher becomes a witness to how young Soltan is being sold in marriage.
Story of Jamal, a Turkmen woman who is left to tend to the farm when her husband goes off to fight in WW2.
The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oasis that is 60 km away.
Old man Khalnazar tells the orphan Toykuli about the kidnapped Gyulkahkas-peri, who brings joy to people. The boy decides to find Gylkahkas. The trials that befell him were shared by a girl he met named... Gyulkahkas. Only at the end of his wanderings Toykuli realized that his companion was the peri he was looking for, and only kindness and love could work miracles.
A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.
Ten steps from the round pillar, in the ruins of the old fortress of Kum-Basan-Kala, secret messages are hidden, which must be delivered abroad. For these documents, foreign intelligence sends its spy. The film tells about the events that took place in the old fortress.
To help the starving peasants of 1918 Turkestan, the Soviet government sends a caravan with bread from Tashkent. This path is dangerous - gangs of Basmachi and White Cossacks are rampant here. The detachment commander, after a series of exhausting battles, decides to distract the gangs - and sets off on the wrong path a “false caravan” led by Commissioner Archman...
In the center - a story about the collapse of the plans of British imperialism, which sought to tear Turkmenistan away from Soviet Russia and turn it into a colony of the British Empire. About the failure of an experienced British intelligence officer who operated in 1918 on the territory of Turkestan.
An adventures of two best friends Murad and Selim in the desert.
A young boy is taken from his cozy existence in the city to live with his grandfather in the wild countryside of Central Asia.
Biographical film about Eyne Kuliyeva, who was the first woman to be the head of a local governance in 1920s Soviet Turkmenistan.
A love story with a tragic ending set in 19th century Turkmenistan
A picture about the cheerful adventures of cheerful, never despondent brothers.
The film is based on K. Kuliev's novel "Magtymguly". A story about a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who wrote under the pen name Pyragy (Feraghi) and is considered to be the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history. After graduating from the Khiva Madrasa, the poet Pyragy (Feraghi) Magtymguly returns to his native Turkmen aul. He teaches children, composes poems, loves a beautiful girl and is loved by her. But local bey Cherkez-khan does not like the poet's calls to unite Turkmens, and his soldiers burn the village. Khan appoints the captured Magtymguly his court poet but, having received a refusal, the tyrant orders to kill the poet. But the guard helps the poet to escape. Having returned to the burnt aul, Magtymguly begins to call on Turkmens to unite with Russia, because they could not deal with their troubles alone.
Young investigator leads cases related to drug trafficking, while his boss, connected to the underworld, seeks his arrest.
A tale about prince Ahmet and his adventures.
