When the Whales Leave (1982)

Director: Anatoli Nitochkin

Poetic tale of love between of the hunter Gilgil and his beautiful wife Tintin, told through the Chukchi myth imagery.

Cast

Gulzhan Aspetova

Nau, the eternal woman

Svetlana Khiltukhina

Tintin/Young Nau

Makil Kulanbayev

Reu

Valeriy Pya

Young Reu

Akyl Kulambayev

Reu

Nurkanat Zhakypbay

Armol

Bolot Beyshenaliev

Vetly

Alexander Korshunov

Gilgil

Andrey Martynov

Narrator

Zhanna Rozhdestvenskaya

(Vocals)