Film

Chouga

2007 · 1h 25m · Romance · Drama

IMDb

7.0

Rotten Tomatoes

60%

Chouga is a beautiful, rich and beloved young woman. She is thirty and lives in Astana, the Kazak new capital. She is married to a famous scientist in his sixties and has a seven-year-old son. Her brother and sister-in-law live in Almaty. The couple is tearing apart and Chouga’s brother requests her to come and try to bring them back together. There she meets Ablaï, a rich and idle young man whom she strongly feels attracted to. Once back to Astana, Chouga tries to withstand this sensual attraction about which she has a premonition of a tragic outcome.

Aidos Sagatov

Bronsky

Ainur Turgambayeva

Ainur Sapargali

Zhasulan Asauov

Serik Zhubandykov

Kuat Shildebaev

Ulzhan Koldauova

Joël Farges

• Darezhan OmirbayevDirector
• Limara ZjeksembayevaWriter
• Leo TolstoyNovel
• Joël FargesProducer
• Boris TroshevDirector of Photography
• Mikhail AranyshevEditor

Release date

September 18, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

Kazakh

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Romance, Drama