Chouga
MovieTitle | Shuga |
User score | 5.7 |
Release date | Sep 18, 2007 |
Genre | Romance, Drama |
Director | Darezhan Omirbayev |
Production country | France, Kazakhstan |
Production companies | Artcam International, CNC, Paris-Barcelone Films |
Run time | 85 min. |
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.