''Strayed'' () is a 2009
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
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thriller
Thriller may refer to:
* Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television
** Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre
Comics
* ''Thriller'' (DC Comics), a comic book series published 1983–84 by DC Comics i ...
directed by
Akan Satayev
Akan Satayev (, born December 23, 1971) is a Kazakhstani film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Biography
Akan was born to a family of actors, bot ...
. The film was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, be ...
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but it didn't make the final shortlist.
Plot
A man (Andrey Merzlikin) traveling with his wife (Almagul Rulas) and son (Ilyas Sadyrov) to town takes a short cut across the steppes. The car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and in the morning he finds that his wife and son are gone. While looking for them he discovers a strange shack where an older man and his daughter live. This strange pair seem to have plans for him, but it is unclear what those plans might entail. As he discovers there is no escape from this place, he also gets closer to solving the mystery of what happened to his family, and who this strange man and woman really are.
Cast
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Andrey Merzlikin
Andrey Ilyich Merzlikin (; born 24 March 1973) is a Russian film and theater actor.
Early life
Andrey Merzlikin was born in Kaliningrad near Moscow. In the first education – radio engineer of space engineering, then earned a degree in econom ...
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Tungishbay Al-Tarazi – Old man
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Aiganym Sadykova – Girl
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Almagul Rulas – Wife
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Ilyas Sadyrov – Son
See also
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References
External links
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2009 films
2009 thriller films
Kazakhstani drama films
2000s Russian-language films
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