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When the Whales Leave
Когда уходят киты
Year of production: 1981
Production country: USSR
Production company: Creative Association "Ekran"
Director: Anatoly Nitochkin
Producer: Yuri Smirnov
Screenwriter: Yuri Rytkheu
Composer: Eduard Artemyev
D.O.P.: Vladimir Brusin
Editor: L.Krylova
Production designer: Valentina Gordeeva
Costume designer: R.Putintseva
Make up artist: R.Putintseva
Sound Director: S.Zhikharev
Cast: Gulzhan Aspetova, Svetlana Khiltukhina, Makil Kulanbaev, Valery Pya, Alexander Korshunov, Nurkanat Zhakypbay, Bolot Beishenaliev
Film category: Drama
Rating: 16+
Length: 76 min.
A poetic story based on the folklore of the peoples of the North about the life of one of the Chukchi camps, about the true love of the beauty Tintin and the hunter Gilgil.
  • Anatoly Nitochkin
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    DOP, director.
    In 1956 he graduated from the camera department of VGIK.

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    1979 – On the taiga winds
    1977 – Debt
    1976 – Ladies and hussars (film-performance)
    1975 – Dew
    1972 – The most beautiful ships