This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…
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Zhanna Issabayeva Director · Victor Nemchenko Writer Mikhail Blintsov Cinematographer
First release November 22, 2018 · Produced in Kazakhstan · Original title Отвергнутые
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Kazakhstan
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Original title
Отвергнутые
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Kazakh
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Kazakh
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Kazakhstan · November 22, 2018
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