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Turkmenistan4 Essential Films from TurkmenistanStop 1 of 4

The Daughter-in-Law

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1972

A young war widow lives with her aging father-in-law in the vast Turkmen desert, unable to leave because departing would extinguish their shared hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might one day return. A spare, poignant Soviet-Turkmen drama.

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Part of 4 Essential Films from Turkmenistan

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