Nagima (2014)
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow orphanage “graduate” the pregnant, and equally isolated, Anya. In the midst of giving birth to her child, tragedy strikes and Anya dies. Never knowing her mother, the newborn girl must be submitted to the orphanage and so Nagima sees the vicious cycle of life in repetitious action and becomes severely depressed at the cruelty of life.
Director:
Zhanna Issabayeva
Writer:
Zhanna Issabayeva
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Aidar Mukhametzhanov as |
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Galina Pyanova as |
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Dina Tukubayeva as |
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Nazar Sultanbaev as |
| Production | Erlan Bazhanov | Producer |
| Writing | Zhanna Issabayeva | Screenplay |
| Editing | Azamat Altybasov | Editor |
| Camera | Sayat Zhangazinov | Director of Photography |
| Production | Zhanna Issabayeva | Producer |
| Directing | Zhanna Issabayeva | Director |