---
title: 'The Gift to Stalin (2008)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Rustem Abdrashev'
released: '2008-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Israel'
  - 'Kazakhstan'
  - 'Russia'
  - 'Poland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-gift-to-stalin-2008'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305027/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Gift to Stalin (2008)

2008 · 97 min · Drama · Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland

Original title: Подарок Сталину

## Synopsis

The Gift to Stalin is a 2008 joint Kazakhstani/Russian/Polish/Israeli film by Kazakhfilm that tells the story of a little Jewish boy named Sasha who is sent to Kazakhstan. He is saved from death by an old Kazakh man, Kasym, who takes the boy into his home. The film is set in 1949 and is based on the memoirs of Russian Jewish writer David Markish, also portrayed in his trilogy A New World for Simon Ashkenazy.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Rustem Abdrashev](https://cinepixo.com/people/rustem-abdrashev)
- **Screenplay:** [Pavel Finn](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-finn)

## Cast

- [Yekaterina Rednikova](https://cinepixo.com/people/yekaterina-rednikova)
- [Aleksandr Bashirov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-bashirov)

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