By Stephen Dalton Kazakhstan's "Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe" is one ... against an older cast of mostly professional actors. The movie’s chief flaw is its thuddingly simplistic fairy ...

FILM REVIEW: This Kazakhstan adventure brims with patriotic purpose. By Stephen Dalton Ayan Utepbergen plays a freedom fighter in Kazakhstan. Chosen from more than 20,000 who auditioned, screen ...

Made by leading Kazakh director Aqan Sataev (who raised cinephile eyebrows when he gave footballer-turned-movie-tough-guy Vinnie Jones his Kazakh cinema debut last year), "Myn Bala: Warriors of ...

“Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe” is Kazakhstan‘s entry for foreign-language Oscar consideration. The sweeping $10 million-budget movie is the true story a group of teenage rebels who rose ...

Kazakhstan anticipates that its first national epic film, Myn Bala, will put the country on the world map — this time, in a positive light. Though this may be seen to some as a form of ...

Myn Bala is a film that aims to put the Kazakh movie industry on the map. A historical epic with a budget of $10 million, it is set to do for Kazakhstan what Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon did ...

“Myn Bala” production team included top international ... CEO Abhi Rastogi and producer Aliya Uvalzhanova, whose New Film Format company produced the film with Yermek Amanshayev, prexy of ...

The biggest film to come out of Kazakhstan in a decade aims to get the country's younger generation excited about its ancestry and history. "Myn Bala" (meaning 'a thousand boys' in Kazakh), tells ...

Cut! Across Kazakhstan, an epic historical movie with an unabashedly patriotic tale is playing to packed theaters. Directed by Akhan Satayev for the state-run Kazakhfilm studio, “Myn Bala: Warriors of ...

Lifestyle, Movies Kazakhstani film ‘Myn Bala — Warriors of the Steppe’ screened at PNCA * 'Myn Bala — Warriors of the Steppe' is a Kazakhstani historical drama featuring actual events ...