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This documentary is about Abdylas Maldybaev, a wonderful composer and singer, whose name is given to the Kyrgyz State Opera and Ballet Theater.

This is not a banal retelling of the biography of an outstanding author and performer of music. The living nature of his native land and the people inhabiting it appear on the screen. We see them through the eyes of travelers, together with them we listen to the melodies that live among the people and are performed by people. And very naturally comes the understanding that creativity exists in harmony with high mountains and is nourished by the clean water of springs. It’s so interesting that in a 10-minute film essay the viewer has time to learn about the musician’s works, see and feel the sources of his inspiration, and at the same time admire the beauty and purity of the landscapes of the republic, and get acquainted with the work of shepherds.

As in her other documentary works, director Lilya Turusbekova tells us about an interesting person of her time. In the film, Abdylas Maldybaev appears before us in the prime of his creative powers. These shots are undoubtedly valuable for lovers of music and history of our country. Of course, the scriptwriter, V. Gorokhov, also deserved applause.

It is interesting that the cinematographer of the film was a wonderful master – Marles Turatbekov, with whom Lilya Turusbekova communicated as a child, they were the same age, Marles was two months younger. Both were among the first Kyrgyz filmmakers to graduate from VGIK – Lilya as a documentary director in 1956, and Marles as a cinematographer in 1958. Both worked their entire working lives at the KYRGYZFILM film studio in their specialty and made several more films together.

The family archive contains photographs from 1948 (both of them are 15 years old) in the first children’s sanatorium in the Kyrgyz Republic, Cholpon-Ata.