The Rough River, the Placid Sea

The Rough River, the Placid Sea

The Rough River, the Placid Sea

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The Rough River, the Placid Sea

2004

1h 0m

9.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

A modern parable about three brothers whom life has divided as they each went their separate ways. Of their happy childhood and adolescent years together, only a black-and-white photograph remains, capturing the three young men at a table in front of their family home, and memories of the greenhouse that was their father's pride.

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5 members

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Rustem Turkbenbayev

Older brother

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Anatolij Pak

Middle brother

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Adil Turkbenbayev

Younger brother

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Ainura Kabatai kyzy

Older brother's wife

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Svetlana Bakeeva

Younger brother's girlfriend

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