The Plague at the Karatas Village

2016 Kazakh film

The Plague at the Karatas Village

Directed by| Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Written by| Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Produced by| Serik Abishev
Olga Khlasheva
Starring| Aibek Kudabayev
Tolganay Talgat

Release date

* January 31, 2016 (2016-01-31) (International Film Festival Rotterdam)

Running time

| 86 min.
Country| Kazakhstan
Languages| Russian, Kazakh

The Plague at the Karatas Village (Russian: Чума в ауле Каратас) is a 2016 Kazakh film directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov.[1][2] The film is part of the Kazakh Partisan Cinema, a guerrilla filmmaking movement that aims to work without any governmental interference.[3]

## Plot

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A new mayor arrives in a small Kazakh village and finds out there is a mysterious plague infecting the villagers, while locals insist it's only a flu.

## Cast

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* Aibek Kudabayev
* Tolganay Talgat
* Nurbek Mukushev
* Konstantin Kozlov
* Baimurat Zhumanov
* Yerbolat Yerzhanov
* Ademoka

## See also

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* Cinema of Kazakhstan
* Guerrilla filmmaking

## References

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1. ^ "The Plague at the Karatas Village [SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED]". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
2. ^ Smailova, Inna. "Adilkhan Yerzhanov: The Plague at the Karatas Village (Chuma v aule Karatas/ Karatas auylyndagy oba, 2016)". KinoKlutura. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
3. ^ The Partisan Movement, or Kazakhstan's New Wave Cinema by Eduardo Guillot

## External links

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* The Plague at the Karatas Village at IMDb

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