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Kazakhstan’s Oscar© 2020 Entry for Best Feature: ‘The Crying Steppe’ by Marina Kunarova

Kazakhstan has recently been making a big splash in the news and usually it is because of the antics of Borat or a recurring ad on CNN. ‘The Crying Steppe’, Kazakhstan’s official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film and official Golden Globe submission for Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language, directed by Marina Kunarova, is exactly the opposite. Marina Kunarova is the first female director from the former Soviet Union countries to ever have a film officially submitted for the Best International Film Academy Award. The film is based upon true events that befell Kazakhstan during the 1920s and 1930s ordered by Stalin.

Sydney Levine
SydneysBuzz The Blog
10 min readJan 7, 2021

While most Americans have heard about the genocide of the Jewish people, homosexuals and Gypsies in the Shoah, the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, the ongoing genocide of Uighurs and the Royinga, the Bosnian, Rwandan and other…

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Written by Sydney Levine

Sydney’s 40+ years in international film business include exec positions in acquisitions, twice selling FilmFinders, the 1st film database, coaching & writing.

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