Beibarys sultan

Authors: Р. Otarbayev, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan

Director: Yu. Haningo-Beknazar, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan

Production designer: E. Tuyakov, Honored Artist of Kazakhstan

Assistant director: A. Satybaldy, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan

Premiere: 19.06.2013

Genre: historical drama

Duration: 1 hour. 15 min

Age category: 13+

 

Sultan al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars (1223 -. 1277 years)was left an orphan at the age of ten, was captured and sold as a slave, but thanks to his personal qualities in a short time made a swift military career and became renowned military commander. Afterwards, took the throne of the ruler, he devoted his life to the formation of a powerful and prosperous state. Having reached heights and glory in a foreign land, in the recesses of his heart he kept the memory of the native Kipchak steppes, causing plaintive nostalgic feeling about the homeland. And it has become a leitmotif of the whole performance. Perhaps knowingly speak national proverb «than being a sultan in a foreign country is better to be outsole at homeland"…