I Don’t Want to Be a Passerby

After finishing eight grades at a school in Ashgabat, Bayram Ovezov, against his mother’s wishes, decides to return to the mining town of Gaurdak, where his grandfather lives and where his father once worked. Bayram enrolls in a vocational school to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a miner.

• Ovez ErekovDirector
• Eduard TropininWriter

• Batyr KurbanovБайрам Овезов
• Rayisa NedashkivskaАйсолтан
• Oraz AmangeldyyevСахат
• B. MollayevКлыч
• I. AndrushenkoВасиль
• Yusup KuliyevСары
• Lilianna SidorenkoШура
• Oraz CherkezovКадыр-Уста
• Chary BerdiyevШарип Гарипович
• Annamurad BerdyevМурад Зынхарович
• Orazmurad Gummadovдядя Максуд
• Muhammed Cherkezovдед Байрама