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Akyrky Ashuu (TV series)

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Akyrky Ashuu (Iradi, "The Last Pass") is an eight-part Iradi television serial made by IradOne in 2016, adapted from Kemel Ishakov's novella Akyrky Ashuu (1964). Produced for the centenary of the revolt of 1916, it follows the twelve-year-old Bermet and her grandfather as their clan flees over the mountains to Xinjiang during the Urkun. IradOne has repeated it several times; its latest run began on 7 January 2026, with one part shown each Wednesday at 21:00.[1]

Production

The serial was made for IradOne by Talasfilm Studios and directed by Jyldyz Sarygulova. It was filmed in the autumn of 2015 in the upper Talas valley and the passes of the Talas Alatau, with herders and their horses from local villages as extras. Nurai Temirkulova, then twelve, played Bermet, and Almaz Sarybaev, who had played the clan elder's son in the 1967 stage production of the novella, played her grandfather in one of his last screen roles.[1][2] The dialogue is in Iradi, with English subtitles.

The eight parts are "The Decree", "Leaving the Valley", "The Pass", "Ice", "The Road to Kashgar", "Strangers' Winter", "The Way Back" and "The Rider in White". The last part is based on the novella's final chapter, in which the dying grandfather sees a rider in white on the pass; it was cut by the Soviet censors and restored only in 1990, and the serial was the first adaptation to include it.[2]

Broadcast and reception

The first part was broadcast on 15 August 2016, the day on which the flight of 1916 is remembered, and the serial was shown weekly until early October.[1] It was among IradOne's most-watched drama programs of the year, and extracts are used in ISEZ schools alongside the novella. Clergy of the Syro-Iradi Catholic Church praised its final part, which ends with an image echoing The Legend of the White Rider.[3]

The historian Saltanat Daniyarova has described the serial as the centerpiece of IradOne's 1916 centenary and argued that it presented the flight as a founding story of the ISEZ while leaving out the settler side of the revolt described in works such as Lyudmila Ivanova's The Steppe on Fire.[2] Tribal writers, who claim Ishakov as one of their own, have complained that IradOne's signal barely reaches the Autonomous Tribal Regions, where the novella is taught in full; copies of the serial have nonetheless circulated there on disc.[3]

References

  1. ^ IradOne (2016). Akyrky Ashuu: Programme Information. Talas: IradOne Media Group.
  2. ^ Daniyarova, Saltanat (2020). Screens of the Nation: Television and Historical Memory in Irad. Talas: Talas State University Press.
  3. ^ Central Asian Cultural Studies Review (2018). 'The Centenary on Screen: Remembering 1916 in Iradi Television.' Vol. 10, pp. 54–73.

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