根据吉尓吉斯作家艾特马托夫（1928-2008）的短篇小说《查密莉雅》改编成的爱情电影，结合彩色动画与黑白的诗意影像，其中动画部分由苏联著名木偶片大师Sergei Yutkevich制作，电影部分则由吉尓吉斯女导演Irina Poplavskaya执导。本片是60年代苏联诗电影中一部鲜为人知的佳作。
艾特马托夫(Chingiz Aitmatov) - 苏联、吉尔吉斯作家。1928年12月12日生于吉尔吉斯塔拉斯山区舍克尔村。1937年苏联“肃反”时，任州委书记的父亲冤遭镇压。未成年便在村里当苏维埃秘书、区收税员、拖拉机站计工员。1953年吉尔吉斯农学院毕业后，在吉尔吉斯畜牧研究所工作3年。1952年起开始发表短篇小说。1956年被选送到苏联作家协会高尔基文学院进修 1958 年发表的《查密莉雅》描写一位农妇不顾旧观念和旧习俗，敢于追求自己的爱情和精神生活，手法新颖，受到一致好评，它与后来的《我们包着红头巾的小白杨》 (4部中篇小说结集1961～1963）一起获1963年列宁奖金。1966年发表中篇小说《别了，古利萨雷！》描绘出吉尔吉斯民族现代生活的图景，揭示了现代社会的矛盾和冲突，获1968年度苏联国家文艺奖。70年代以来的作品有中篇小说《白轮船》、《早来的鹤》、《花狗崖》和长篇小说《一日长于百年》（获1983年苏联国家奖金）、《断头台》等。他的创作富于吉尔吉斯民族特色，内容丰富深刻，文笔优美，已被译成50多种文字出版，在国内外拥有广泛读者。1976～1991年任苏联作家协会理事会书记处书记、常务书记等。

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This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. A young orphan rescues an orphaned wolf cub and lavishes considerable affection on it. His uncle, believing that this “softness” will result in the boy’s being unable to endure the rigors of life on the Kazakh steppes, savagely beats the cub in front of the boy. By the time the grown wolf is released into the wild, it has grown extremely ferocious and it returns and attacks the boy, perhaps because it perceives him as being weak, just as the boy’s uncle did. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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When Tolomush Okeev passed away at the age of 66 in late 2001, the Kirghiz Film Studio was renamed in his honor. Which is as it should be, because he was a powerfully gifted and dedicated artist who served his country and its film industry well. Okeev was one of the greatest outdoor filmmakers who ever lived: he deserves a place alongside Jean Epstein and Terrence Malick. Anyone can set up a camera in front of a mountaintop and get a majestic image. But Okeev filmed the Kirghiz mountains and deserts with an intimate knowledge and the keenest sensitivity. The action in his films is always keyed to the landscape in a way that appears effortless, no matter how painstakingly wrought: he knows every crack, every crevice, all the cruelty and all the beauty of a life lived under the open sky. This 1973 film, written by Andrei Konchalovsky, may well be Okeev’s masterpiece. It’s the story of a boy who raises a wolf cub, and learns quickly about savagery of the animal and human variety. No one beside Bresson has understood the essential character of an animal so well. And there are sequences here – a pack of wolves raiding a herd of sheep by night, a wolf hunt on horseback, and the snowscapes of the last section of the movie – that will make your hair stand on end. Warning: the films contains explicit scenes of violence to animals.
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