Native Dancer (2008)
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues.
Director:
Gulshat Omarova
Writer:
Ermek Tursunov
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Neisipkul Omarbekova as Aidai |
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Farkhad Amankulov as Batir |
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Almat Ayanov as Asan |
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Nurlan Alimzhanov as Arman |
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Tulepbergen Baisakalov as |
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Sayat Merekenov as |
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Azamat Satybaldy as |
| Writing | Ermek Tursunov | Screenplay |
| Directing | Gulshat Omarova | Director |
| Writing | Gulshat Omarova | Writer |
| Writing | Sergei Bodrov | Writer |
| Production | Natacha Devillers | Producer |
| Production | Sergej Azimov | Producer |
| Production | Sergei Selyanov | Producer |
| Art | Almagul Menlibayeva | Production Design |
| Production | Sergei Bodrov | Producer |
| Camera | Rafik Galeev | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Almagul Menlibayeva | Costume Design |
| Production | Alec Schulmann | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Daria Danilova | Editor |
| Camera | Rafik Galeev | Steadicam Operator |
| Crew | Farkhad Amankulov | Fight Choreographer |
| Sound | Olivier Dandré | Sound Director |
| Directing | Pavel Popov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Aleksey Kiryukhin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Production | Anuar Raibayev | Casting Director |
| Sound | Vladimir Golounin | Sound Director |
| Production | Pavel Popov | Producer |