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: Растворяться) is a 2019 feature-length drama film by the South Korean

art-house An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily f ...

director

Kim Ki-Duk Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of ...

. It was shot in Kazakhstan with local actors and premiered at the

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under the temporary title ''3000''. It was screened at the Almaty Film Festival in Kazakhstan on 19 September 2019, where it was compared to Kim's earlier film ''

Samaritan Girl ''Samaritan Girl'' () is a 2004 South Korean film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk. Synopsis Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostitution, prostituti ...

''. This was Kim's final film before his death the following year.

Plot

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, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.

Cast

* Dinara Zhumagaliyeva as Din * Sanjar Madi as Nurlan

References

External links

* 2019 films South Korean drama films Kazakhstani drama films Films shot in Kazakhstan Films about prostitution 2010s South Korean films {{SouthKorea-film-stub