Gift to Stalin
"Gift to Stalin" begins in modern-day Jerusalem. It is the home of Sabyr, a man who reflects on his traumatic childhood: the boy Sabyr and his family were deported from Moscow in 1949. Believed dead, Sabyr is taken off the train amidst corpses, and saved by the old railway guard Kasym, who...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Kazakh |
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Aldongar Production
2008
Kazakhstan |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:46ff56c8-599e-4c3b-9d62-af883e348650 |
| Summary: | "Gift to Stalin" begins in modern-day Jerusalem. It is the home of Sabyr, a man who reflects on his traumatic childhood: the boy Sabyr and his family were deported from Moscow in 1949. Believed dead, Sabyr is taken off the train amidst corpses, and saved by the old railway guard Kasym, who raises him in the steppe village with a community of other deportees. Soon the village prepares for Stalin’s anniversary. |
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| Published: | 2008 |