Some of his stories were filmed, like The First Teacher in , Jamila in , and several times To Have and to Lose. As with many educated Kyrgyz, Aitmatov was fluent in both Kyrgyz and Russian. As he explained in one of his interviews, Russian was as much of a native language for him as Kyrgyz.
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