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 | Sergej Azimov | Producer |
| Production | Sergei Bodrov | Producer |
| Production | Natacha Devillers | Producer |
| Production | Sergei Selyanov | Producer |
| Production | Alec Schulmann | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Rafik Galeev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Almagul Menlibayeva | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Almagul Menlibayeva | Costume Design |
| Editing | Daria Danilova | Editor |
| Sound | Vladimir Golounin | Sound Director |
| Directing | Pavel Popov | Assistant Director |
| Production | Anuar Raibayev | Casting Director |
| Sound | Olivier Dandré | Sound Director |
| Camera | Aleksey Kiryukhin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Rafik Galeev | Steadicam Operator |
| Crew | Farkhad Amankulov | Fight Choreographer |
| Production | Pavel Popov | Producer |