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Movie Info

Director:

Darezhan Omirbayev

Cast & Crew

Aidos Sagatov

Alnur Turgambayeva

Ainur Turgambayeva

Ainur Sapargali

Darezhan Omirbayev
Director

Critic Reviews for Shuga (Chouga)

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2)

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

October 9, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

David Phelps
Slant Magazine
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.

February 13, 2021 | Full Review…

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

August 23, 2017 | Full Review…

Eric Hynes
Stop Smiling
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

August 8, 2009 | Full Review…

Leo Goldsmith
Reverse Shot
Chouga never loses control%u2014a performance Lana Turner would be proud of.

July 31, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com