Tomiris (movie)

Tomiris is a commercial movie about  Queen Tomiris.  This historical drama is about the ruler of the Massagetae in the sixth century B.C.

The movie was released in September 2019.  Its plot is based on material from Herodotus as told through Al-Farabi.  It tells how Tomiris led her nomadic people to victory over Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire when he invaded her land.

The movie's director was Akan Satayev.  "The historical drama was filmed based on order of the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Sports."  The producer was Aliya Nazarbayeva. The movie was made by the  Kazakhfilm Film Studio with participation of Sataifilm.https://tengrinews.kz/cinema/ozvuchen-byudjet-filma-tomiris-379985/ The movie's director of props was Kuat Tleubaev.  It cost 2.259 billion tenge (about 6,500,000 US$) to make. It was filmed in Kazakhstan.

Running time is 155 minutes.https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/tomyris-1127372/

According to the Astana Times online, the movie "earned 480 million tenge (US$1.2 million) by the end of October and was screened more than 800 times throughout Kazakhstan." https://astanatimes.com/2019/11/three-kazakh-films-included-in-golden-globe-awards-long-list/

Tomiris was one of three Kazakhstani movies in the Golden Globes long list of candidates for the Foreign Language Film category.

At France’s 26th L’Étrange Festival, 20202, it won the Nouveau Genre Great Prize in the International Feature Film Competition.https://astanatimes.com/2020/09/kazakh-film-tomiris-wins-nouveau-genre-prize-at-letrange-festival-in-france/

The movie was scheduled to be released in Turkey in April 2020.https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/1127372/

 Languages 
The narrative is in Russian with Kazakh subtitles.  The characters speak in ancient Turkic and Persian languages.

Cast
 Almira Tursyn     as Tomiris
 Aizhan LighG      as Princess Sardana
Gassan Massoud as Cyrus the Great 
 Murat Bisenbin     as Spargap, Tomiris's father and the Chief
Adil Akhmetov       as Tomiris's husband Argun
 Azamat Satybaldy  as Kavaz
Berik Aitzhanov       as  Kurtun
 Ayan Otepbergen 
 Asylkhan Tolepov
 Erkebulan Dairov      as Khoman
Sain Ferhad            as Immortelle

References

Other web sites
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7985648/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
 Official flim page: http://sataifilm.kz/9-filmy/32-tomiris 
 Review: https://asianmoviepulse.com/2020/09/film-review-the-legend-of-tomiris-2019-by-akan-satayev/

Category:2010s historical movies