Once and for a Lifetime

Once and for a Lifetime (1977) is a Kazakhfilm historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, adapted by director Viktor Pusurmanov from a poem by Gabit Musrepov.

The setting is the Kazakh steppe in 1918, as Soviet power takes its first uncertain hold. Erken, a poet and singer of the people, rouses the poor with his verses, and the bandits who want him silenced never quite manage it — the land itself seems to shelter him, in a peasant's home, on a hidden road south. Through every danger he carries his love for Aklima, met once and never forgotten. A small, lyrical film about a word that outlasts a bullet. Watch it on iFILM.