“A Staircase to the Sky” (1966), which won for the author the most part of prizes in Soviet Union, again renders the heavy psychological spirit of the post-war Lithuanian village.

Moscow International Film Festival 1999Won Silver St. George Best Actor Farkhad AbdraimovNominated Golden St. George Abai KarpykovCrippled since his youth, Fara's influential father has always pulled strings for his son to help him along. As an adult Fara, who runs a Kazakhstan restaurant, learns of his father's involv…