Movie

Nisso (1966)

• August 1, 1966
• 3h 17m

• Drama

Overview

A girl from a tiny mountain village with narrow, walled-in streets and steep, slippery paths lost her mother. Her childhood, spent in her aunt's house, was marked by hunger and poverty. When a tax collector from the powerful and cruel Azizkhan (played by G. Niyazov) arrived in the village, her aunt had no money to pay, so she gave up her niece. And they brought Azizkhan a herd of five goats, a couple of calves, and a thin, frail girl named Nissi, who was destined to become a concubine. The girl decided to run away or perish...

Director

Marat Aripov

Writers

Leonid Rutitskiy, Pavel Luknitsky

Starring

Galia Pulatova, Yuriy Nazarov, Boris Seredin