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Tributes - Darezhan Omirbayev
Crew:
Director: Darezhan Omirbayev
Screenplay: Darezhan Omirbayev
DOP: Boris Trochev
Production: Kazakhfilm National Company, Kadam Films, Paris-Barcelone Films, Artcam International
Screenplay: Darezhan Omirbayev
DOP: Boris Trochev
Production: Kazakhfilm National Company, Kadam Films, Paris-Barcelone Films, Artcam International
The film is inspired by Tolstoi's Anna Karenina. Chouga lives in Astana, new capital of Kazakhstan. In her 30s, she is rich and beloved by her family. She falls crazy in love with another man, from a poor family. Taken by passion, she leaves her husband and son to stay with him. However, love reveals to be a lure and passion a trap. Without any hope for return, she commits suicide.
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Cast:
Alnur Turgambayeva, Aidos Sagatov -
Original Title:
Shuga -
Country:
France, Kazakhstan -
Year:
2007 - 88' Subtitles: Portuguese
Crew:
Director: Darezhan Omirbayev
Screenplay: Darezhan Omirbayev
DOP: Boris Trochev
Production: Kazakhfilm National Company, Kadam Films, Paris-Barcelone Films, Artcam International
Screenplay: Darezhan Omirbayev
DOP: Boris Trochev
Production: Kazakhfilm National Company, Kadam Films, Paris-Barcelone Films, Artcam International
Director
Darezhan Omirbayev

Director and screenwriter, he was born in Kazakhstan, 1958, and was acclaimed by Jean-Luc Godard as "one of the most astonishing filmmakers working today", Darezhan Omirbayev studied Applied Mathematics in Kazakhstan, later embracing cinema when moving to Russia in 1983. After a brief foray into film criticism, he directed Kairat, his first feature-film, in 1991, earning the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Endowed with an outstanding sensibility to detail, Omirbayev is able to portray, in every social microcosm that composes his work, the monotony of everyday life in Kazakhstan and the little nothings that define human existence.