Punishment After Death (1998)
A story about struggling writer who puts himself in a death row cell instead of the look alike criminal so he could finish his novel.
Top billed cast
- A. Orazbekov
- Botagoz Nurlybayeva
- A. Suleymanov
- E. Lazko
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