RETURNEE

Kazakhstan, 2017, 95 min.
Production: Kazakhfilm, Kadam Film Studio
Language: Kazakh
Format: DCP

Script: Nurlan Sanzhar, with participation from Sabit Kurmanbekov
Director: Sabit Kurmanbekov
DoP: Mars Umarov
Editor: Aslan Suleimenov
Composer: Aydos Sagat
Producer: Yerzhan Akhmetov, Tanirbergen Kazhiev
Cast: Dulyga Akmolda, Yesim Segizbaev, Bayan Kazhnabieva, Dinara Dairova

The Kazakh family of the Saparkuls returns from Afghanistan to the historical homeland Kazakhstan. The road from the hell of war to the peaceful paradise is hard. Sadly, the homeland hardly remembers its forgotten sons. The repatriates face social problems. However, one does not choose the father’s home: it is their home and their land where the heroes and their descendants will live.

Sabit Kurmanbekov
Born in 1960 in the village Chubar, near Karabulak, Taldykurgan Region (Kazakhstan). Film director, scriptwriter, production designer, actor, artist. Graduated from the design department of Alma-Ata Art School (1980), the art faculty of the Film Institute VGIK as production designer for film and TV (1990,
class of S. Soloviev).

2017 Returnee
2015 The Village Guard (TV )
2010 Late Love
2009 Seker
2007 Rush