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Chouga

Chouga

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 18, 2007

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Romance, Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Shuga

Production Companies

Artcam International, CNC, Paris-Barcelone Films

Director

Darezhan Omirbayev

Description

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.