Tengri: Blue Heavens

Tengri: Blue Heavens

96 mins | Drama | July 10, 2008

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

Tengri: Blue Heavens

96 mins | Drama | July 10, 2008

Tengri: Blue Heavens
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
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers
Original title Tengri
Directors Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
Writers Azamat Kadyraliev, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville, Jean-François Goyet

Cast

Albina Imasheva

as Amira

Elim Kalmouratov

as Témür

Hélène Patarot

as Raissa

Taalai Abazova

as Uljan

Nikolai Marousitch

as Erofei

Busurman Odurakaev

as Shamshi