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The Land of Our Fathers

Атамекен

1966

An old man sets out with his young grandson to recover the body of his son, a soldier killed far away in the war, so he can bury him in his ancestral Kazakh soil, and their journey lays bare the wounds of a nation. A moving drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Kazakhstan

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