Steppe Express (2005)

Steppe Express is a 2005 film from the Kazakhfilm studio, directed by Amanzhol Aituarov and Satybaldy Narymbetov from a script by Odelsha Agishev and Kuat Akhmetov. Saule lives with her father, a railway linesman, on the Kazakh steppe. When a young Frenchman, Etienne, arrives, her curiosity about the outside world grows and the two become close. Her father, afraid of losing her, is wary at first but eventually lets her go to France.