The River (Kazakh: Ózen) is a drama film, directed by Emir Baigazin and released in 2018.[1]
Considered the third part of a trilogy with Baigazin's earlier films Harmony Lessons and The Wounded Angel,[1] the film stars Zhalgas Klanov as Aslan, a teenage boy who is entrusted by their strict and physically abusive father (Kuandyk Kystykbayev) to supervise his brothers in their farm chores. He frequently takes them to the nearby river to swim and lounge in the sun as a temporary respite from their home life, leading to disruption of the family order when the boys' cousin (Eric Tazabekov) arrives and exposes the boys to many of the technological temptations of contemporary modern life from which their father had shielded them.[1]
