The Return to A

This movie is about the life of Marat Ayumov, a former soldier from Kazakhstan who fought in Afghaninstan. The past and present are interwoven in the memories of the protagonist. Throughout the film, in fragmented flashbacks, the hero recollects the time when he, as a soldier, fought in the armed conflict in the mountainous country as he travels to Afghanistan to accompany a young and creative TV crew making a documentary called “Following Alexander the Great”.

• Vladimir MoiseenkoScreenplay
• Aleksandr Novototskiy-VlasovWriter
• Egor KonchalovskyDirector

• Seydulla MoldakhanovMarat Ayumov
• Berik AitzhanovMarat Ayumov in his youth
• Karlygash MukhamedzhanovaDinara
• Natalya ArinbasarovaMarat Ayumov's grandmother
• Gulnara DusmatovaSaule
• Ivan ZhidkovAleksey
• Gosha Kutsenkocolonel-pilot
• Asha MatajAliya
• Denis NikiforovAndrey Ostrovskiy
• Andrey ShibarshinSergey
• Sultanna KarimovaCast
• Arman AsenovKara-mayor