Muratbek Ryskulov
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 6, 1909
Known For
Worship the Fire
Kyrgyzstan, the 1920s. In a remote mountain village, against the will of the local elites and in defiance of centuries-old traditions, a woman—Urkuya Salieva—is elected chair of the agricultural cooperative. Salieva is determined to build a new life with an uncompromising resolve against anyone who would obstruct the poor, a stance unusual for a woman.
The Forty-First
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
The Skies of Our Childhood
Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city. When his youngest son pays him a visit, Bakai wants him to stay and help with the rigors of rural living.
Gunshot at the Mountain Pass
About the Kirghiz aristocracy's attempt to battle the influx of Russian merchants in pre-Revolution days.
White Mountains
Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing, he, having to choose a tragic solution.
Sovereignty
A high-mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan. A raging disaster nearly takes the life of a girl named Saltanat, a young zootechnician from a high-mountain collective farm. She is found in the snow and rescued by a researcher Joomart. From him Saltanat learns about plans to turn barren plateaus into abundant pastures. A bold idea fascinates Saltanat. She becomes Joomart's friend and ally in the struggle for the conquest of nature.
The Girl from Tyan-Shan
A love story of young Altynay and young Asake. Having graduated from the college, Altynay returns to his native collective farm in the Tyan-Shan highlands. Lovers are going to get married. Ashirbay, Asake’s father, is planning a wedding as soon as his son heads the collective farm. But unexpectedly, Altynay is elected as chairman. The girl, contrary to the ancient customs of the highlands, vigorously takes up business. She does a lot of good deeds within a short period of time. Everyone began to respect the young chairman. Only Ashirbay harbors a grudge. And once, when in a blizzard he overtook a flock of sheep, he decided to lead the sheep to the abyss. Asake, accompanying his father, saves the collective farm flocks of sheep, and he perishes...
Dzhura
The end of the 1920s — the beginning of the 1930s in Kyrgyzstan. Parts of the Red Army are waging an uncompromising struggle with basmachi in Central Asia. The film tells about the formation of the character of the young Kyrgyz hunter Djura, who found himself in a swirling whirlpool of revolutionary events that swept the Pamirs. It shows the hard way from a simple young hunter, entangled in centuries of prejudice, to a conscious, seasoned in many battles with the Basmachi mature fighter, who believed in the great ideas of the revolution.
Herdsman's Song
A young singer from Buryat-Mongolian collective farm is sent to Moscow to study. Despite his strong voice, he fails a music exam. After the police station he becomes a soloist in a choir and a police sergeant, while studying music reading and dreaming of a conservatory.
The Legend of the Icy Heart
In this fantasy film inspired by a Kirghiz fairy-tale and Wilhelm Hauff's "Das kalte Herz," a powerful sorcerer puts a spell on a beautiful dancer, rendering her incapable of love until an infatuated shovel operator comes along.
Filmography
as Borosh-ava
as Azhi
as Bakai
as Kozubay
as Ashirbay
as Sabyr, elder
as Caravan owner