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When a Woman Saddles a Horse

Aýal ata çykanda

1974

This biographical drama tells the story of Eyne Kuliyeva, who in the 1920s became the first woman to lead a local government in Soviet Turkmenistan, defying tradition to serve her people. A portrait of a pioneering woman.