Movie of Nazarbayev’s Childhood showed in Fatih University of Istanbul

The opening ceremony was attended by the university administration, faculty, and representatives of social, political and business circles of the country, Kazakh diaspora and students. The event was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Week of Kazakhstan's cinema began with showing the film about the childhood of President Nursultan Nazarbayev called "Sky of my childhood". "Kazakhstan and Turkey have established fraternal and friendly relations. This is largely thanks to Aksakal of Turkic world, President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Many projects in cultural and education have been implemented jointly by the states", said the rector of the university, Professor Sherif Ali Tekalan. This Kazakh-language movie certainly offers a flattering picture of a young Nursultan Nazarbayev, but it also presents a reflective look at Soviet Kazakhstan in the 1940s and 1950s. It was filmed with a budget of USD3 million against a background of the luscious countryside in which this rural-boy-made-good grew up. The action features a boy named Sultan, born into a family living on the rolling zhaylau (alpine pasturelands) of Ushkonyr outside Almaty. It traces his early childhood in the countryside growing up in a yurt with his mother, father and grandmother, and their move when he was a young boy to the village of Shamalgan.