Shuga (Chouga)

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Shuga (Chouga)

2007

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60%

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5 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

David Phelps

Slant Magazine

Oct 9, 2008

3.5/4

Perhaps no director since Hitchcock has been quite this obsessed with glimpses and gazes.

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

Feb 13, 2021

The story and its components are not developed adequately; everything takes place in a rush. Omirbaev seems to assume our sympathy and interest, rather than arouse and develop them.

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Eric Hynes

Stop Smiling

Aug 23, 2017

An adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina transposed to contemporary Kazakhstan, Chouga is a masterful distillation of the great novel's characterizations and themes.

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Leo Goldsmith

Reverse Shot

Aug 8, 2009

Ramps down Tolstoy's soap-opera grandiosity, while still managing to elevate the banalities of a high-society dalliance to the level of a cosmic psychodrama

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

Jul 31, 2009

2/5

Chouga never loses control%u2014a performance Lana Turner would be proud of.

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Darezhan Omirbayev

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Aidos Sagatov

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Alnur Turgambayeva

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Ainur Turgambayeva

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Ainur Sapargali

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Director: Darezhan Omirbayev

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