Tengri: Blue Heavens

The story

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers soon after his arrival that he is a misfit in this settlement of old conservative Islamic men,some women and children. The only ray of hope for him is Amira a young married woman who waits in frustration for her absentee husband - a Mujahideen. Temur watches sorrowfully as the individual village stories unfold at the same as he tries to help the community out in any way he can. In this way he comes closer to Amira and Taib, her young brother-in-law. In a dead end situation the lovers decide to leave the settlement and travel to a place that would hold out with their dreams. Written by Mira Tanna-Händel

Cast

A Albina ImashevaAmira I Ilim KalmuratovTémür H Hélène PatarotRaissa T Taalai AbazovaUljan A Aibek Midin UuluTaib N Nikolai MarousitchErofei B Busurman OdurakaevShamshi A Askat SoulaimanovAskar T Tabyldy AktanovMansur A Almanbiet Tabildi UuluAskar's Son D Docturkan DiouichenalievaNaima B Bermet OmourovaYesugen

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K Kanat MamyrkanovOljar C Chakan AbdrahmanovaAmira's Mother N Nourdine KalybiekovAmira's Father K Kalyk AktamovOulema U Ulan JukenovHulugu K Kanat MukulLe cavalier M Mirza AydraliyevLe mime K Kamchybek SarybaievLe gros danseur M Meerim Beyshembek KyzyContortionist L Ludmila BydarinaContortionist D Djoumakoun MadiemilovAccordionist A Aman JoumaraievUljan's child M Malika JoumaraievUljan's child A Andrei SaryaninCircus Performer O Olga EfimovaCircus Performer S Sergei EfimovCircus Performer A Anastasia BorisenkoCircus Performer D Daria KovalenkoCircus Performer A Abdykohar MamatovCircus Performer M Mayrambek JoumabaievTeacher Bobi J Jaina NurmambetovaGirl with red hair S Sadyr SagonbaievMan from Oulema N Nourbek BolotovMan from Oulema A Aibek DaiyrbekovMan from Oulema A Asanbek ToktobaevSmuggler I Ishen TeishovSmuggler A Alice de PonchevilleYoung Woman Z Zacharie CastellaChild