The Land of Our Fathers (1966)

6.3/10 86 min Drama

Overview

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

Cast

Yeleubai Umurzakov

Grandfather

Murat Akhmadiev

Bayan

Yuri Pomerantsev

Archaeologist

Tamara Kokova

Sofya

Viktor Perevalov

Orphan

Radner Muratov

Circassian

Lyubov Malinovskaya

Amina Umurzakova

Rakhmetulla Salmenov

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