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Cardiogram

Кардиограмма

1995

A boy from the remote Kazakh steppe, sent to a distant children's sanatorium to treat a heart condition, encounters the strange, harsh world beyond his village for the first time. A spare, tender coming-of-age drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Kazakhstan

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