Death in the Name of Birth

"Death in the Name of Birth" (1988) is a Soviet Kyrgyz drama you can watch online on iFILM. Horse breeder Krasin travels to 1930s Kyrgyzstan with one assignment: to set up the region's first Soviet stud farm.

The plan reads simple on paper. Crossing Don Argamaks with local Karabairs, Krasin means to raise an entirely new breed — but the real resistance comes from people, an unfamiliar way of life and the wary silence of the steppe. Director Jali Sodanbek keeps the pace slow and the focus tight on one man's stubborn devotion to his craft, with Vladimir Podolyak in the lead. A quiet pick for anyone drawn to late-Soviet national cinema and stories about plain, hard work. Stream "Death in the Name of Birth" (1988) online on iFILM.