Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Kurmanjan” is being touted as both the most expensive film to be made in Kyrgyzstan (with a budget of $1.5 million) and the ...

When I found out several months ago about the upcoming release of "Kurmanjan Datka, Queen Of The Mountains," it was an exciting thought for me. Like most who have traveled around Kyrgyzstan, I have ...

A woman of regal countenance galloping in slow motion across a verdant landscape. The cinematographer’s art of seduction reigns supreme. "Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains" never fails to ...

MONTREAL — Toronto producer Niv Fichman called a few days back to tell me I really should take a look at this film Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains, which is having its world première this week ...

Kurmanjan Datka is this year’s official foreign-language Oscar entry for Kyrgyzstan and recounts the story of one of the country’s most celebrated female leaders, who lived from 1811-1907. First-time ...

“Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains,” Kyrgyzstan’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar and purported to be the most expensive production to come out of the former Soviet republic, is a ...

Kyrgyzstan's Oscar submission is an epic drama set high on the steppes of Central Asia By Justin Lowe Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains - H 2014 A historical biopic profiling the stateswoman who ...

Commemorating a rare female leader from a time and place where women were mostly regarded as chattel, the sweeping patriotic epic “Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains” spans the long life ...