Awards : Prize of the magazine "Zvezda Vostoka", IFF of Asian and African Countries in Tashkent, 1980
Main Prize to the best feature movie, All-Union Film Festival in Dushanbe, 1980
Plot synopsis
During the years of the Great Patriotic War the 14-year-old Sultanmurat and his friends lived in the hinterland in a small Kirghiz village. The boy is now the only man left in the family, all the rest have gone to the front. Together with his friends they save the horses, left unattended, from starvation.