''Returning to the 'A ( kk, А-ға оралу, ''A-ǵa oralý''; russian: Возвращение в «А») is a 2011 Kazakhstani
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Egor Konchalovsky
Egor Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Его́р Андреевич Кончало́вский; born January 15, 1966) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the son of director Andrei Konchalovsky and actress Natalya Arinbasa ...
. The film was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
84th Academy Awards,
but it did not make the final shortlist.
Plot
A young, creative team of TV Russian and Kazakh cinematographers are sent on a perilous journey from
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
to
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
to film a documentary film ''In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great''. They are accompanied by a man who once fought on the land of Afghanistan and lost a leg in the fighting - Marat Ayumov. He is fluent in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
, is familiar with the customs, traditions and Afghan laws. But no one knows that he served as a part of the Muslim battalion
GRU Soviet Union under the command of legendary Afghan war Kara Major (Arman Asenov) and that he also has personal reasons to return to Afghanistan.
Production
While the film takes place on the territory of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, all the shooting took place near Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan.
The film had several working titles: ''Afghan'', ''Kara Major'', ''Real Colonel''; It was eventually titled ''Returning to the 'A. In preparation for filming the filmmakers have reviewed a lot of documentaries about the war in Afghanistan. In one of them it talked about the closed Politburo meeting chaired by
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gener ...
, which was held on 12 December 1979. In addition to Brezhnev it was attended by Suslov, Ustinov, Chernenko, Andropov and others. It was then that the final decision to send troops to Afghanistan, issued in the form of a secret decree № 176/125 of the CPSU called ''The situation in A''. Later, the document was declassified.
Страницы истории Афганистана
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See also
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References
External links
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Official page of the film Returning to the 'A'
2011 films
2011 drama films
2011 war drama films
Kazakhstani war drama films
2010s Russian-language films
Russian war drama films
Drama films based on actual events
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