The Gift to Stalin
2008 · 97 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 292 VOTES · DIR. Rustem Abdrashov
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 769 lines
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00:00:07 Hot water for sale! Let's buy hot water. Don't be greedy
00:03:58 l would get married.
00:06:43 Railroad man, half military.
00:11:13 and prepare a place for them in heaven. Amen.
00:17:26 A small Jew.
00:21:41 Here he is, our little Sabyrchik!
00:25:51 What, polishman, you wanna run?
00:29:42 You were told to get him into the orphanage.
00:33:17 ls he found? Yes, he is.
00:38:17 So, we are going to shoot a movie? Yes, sir!
00:40:43 The polish guy says. . .
00:43:21 O-o, not little.
00:45:19 So, what, Ezhik? ls it bad?
00:48:16 Will he be mine?
00:52:07 Neither steeps nor animals knew
00:57:43 lt can go through. Go, go.
01:01:45 Keepyatok, do you want more?
01:05:05 May be there from Balgabai, ha!
01:08:17 well, live together, ha?
01:14:15 The Almighty prepared you for us to eat.
01:17:38 A bright moon in a windless night
01:21:18 What?
01:27:06 Guys, we are attacked!
01:32:01 Let us say Amen!