When the Whales Leave

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

• Anatoli NitochkinDirector
• Yuri RytkheuWriter
• Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer

• Gulzhan AspetovaNau, the eternal woman
• Svetlana KhiltukhinaTintin/Young Nau
• Makil KulanbayevReu
• Valeriy PyaYoung Reu
• Akyl KulambayevReu
• Nurkanat ZhakypbayArmol
• Bolot BeyshenalievVetly
• Alexander KorshunovGilgil
• Andrey MartynovNarrator
• Zhanna Rozhdestvenskaya(Vocals)
• Zhanna Bichevskaya(Vocals)