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Kurak
“The best of you are those who are best to their women.”
0.0 / 10• 2025• 1h 29m•NR• Kyrgyz
Drama
Storyline
Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the background of the traditional, patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan ultimately result in a series of tragic outcomes. The realities of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, despite the status of a "secular state", are violence, hypocrisy, and widespread infringement of the rights of women who are stay a socially unprotected part of the population. Under the conditions of aggressive propaganda of both patriarchal and radical, religious ideology, the ideas of feminism in Kyrgyzstan are equated with the popularization of LGBTQ communities, are openly criticized and the justice system, in most cases, takes the side of murderers and rapists.
Cast & Crew
Begaiym Asanakunova
Jyldyz
Lead
Ainura Kachkynbek Kyzy
Nargiza
Aliman Ryspekova
Meerim
Amangeldy Abdrahmanov
Aibek
Atai Omurbekov
Kanat
What People Are Saying
0.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Erke Dzhumakmatova's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Kurak is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
