ULBOLSYN
synopsis
Strong-willed and determined Ulbolsyn lives in the city. Her younger sister Azhar is going to graduate from school in the village of Karatas. Ulbolsyn has big plans for the future of her beloved sister – she saved enough money so that Azhar could enter a prestigious foreign university, which would allow her to make a good career and become free and independent. However, when Ulbolsyn comes to Karatas for Azhar, she discovers that the girl was kidnapped by the local healer Urgen, a highly respected person in the village. He is going to make Azhar his ‘tokal’ – the younger wife. But Ulbolsyn does not intend to leave it this way, and she decisively enters the struggle with the patriarchal world of Karatas …
international title: | Ulbolsyn |
original title: | Ulbolsın |
country: | Kazakhstan, France |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Adilkhan Yerzhanov |
film run: | 71' |
screenplay: | Adilkhan Yerzhanov |
cast: | Assel Sadvakassova, Dinara Sagi, Yerbolat Alkozha, Berik Aitzhanov, Daniyar Alshinov |
cinematography by: | Azamat Dulatov |
film editing: | Adilkhan Yerzhanov |
art director: | Yermek Utegenov |
music: | Alua Orentai |
producer: | Serik Abishev, Olga Khlasheva |
associate producer: | Philip Cheah |
production: | Arizona Films Productions, Sunny Production (KZ), Short Brothers (KZ) |