ALZHIR: BLOOD, WASHED BY SNOW

Kazakhstan, 2017, 131 min.
Production: RTRK Kazakhstan, Independent Producer Center KazTeleFilm
Languages: Russian, Kazakh
Format: DCP, DVD9

Scriptwriters: Ilyas Iskakov, Bakhytzhan Shormakov, Anuar Raibaev
Director: Anuar Raibaev
DoP: Karshyga Ospanov
Production Design: Petr Sidorenko
Composers: Alibi Mambetov, Rasul Bakhtiyarov
Producers: Rashid Amanzholov, Abdirahim Tolendy
Cast: Svetlana Fortuna, Koblandy Bolat, Anna Starchenko, Andrei Belavin, Marat Abaidilda

ALZHIR is an acronym for the Akmolinsk Camp of the Wives of Traitors of the Fatherland. Here, the human being is deprived of everything, except for honour and morals, kindness and love.

Anuar Raibaev
Born in Moscow in 1971. Graduated from the faculty of directing documentaries of the Film Institute VGIK in Moscow (1993), and the Higher Courses for Directors and Scriptwriters (1999, class of A. Mitta).

2017 ALZHIR : Blood, Washed by Snow
2016 Zhambyl
2015 Kazyna
2012 Sword of Victory
2009 Lave
2007 Rakhmat