Last Judgment

Last Judgment (2024) is a Kazakh historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. It centers on Akhmet Baitursynov, the poet, linguist and a leading voice of the Alash movement in early twentieth-century Kazakhstan.

The production marks 150 years since his birth, following the man who remade Kazakh writing and paid for his convictions during the Stalinist purges. Directors Ergen Tokmurzin and Yerlan Nurmukhambetov spend nearly two and a half hours on the trial, the weight of the state and the cost of standing by a native tongue. Azamat Satybaldy carries the title role, with Darya Aleksandrova and Nazgul Karabalina beside him. For anyone drawn to twentieth-century Central Asian history, it puts a textbook name back into flesh and blood. Watch Last Judgment online on iFILM.