The Guardian of the Light (2018)
- Original title
- Шыракшы
- Directed by
- Ermek Tursunov
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young Kazakh soldier spares an elderly German man after World War II and receives a portable projector and films as a gift. Decades later, he travels to remote villages to show movies, but the arrival of professional cinemas forces him to keep moving farther away.
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