DINARA ASANOVA

Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (24 October 1942) is a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and actress. She graduated high school in 1959 and began to work for Kyrgyzfilm from 1960-1962. She studied at VGIK and graduated in 1968. During her time there, she worked on Larisa Shepitko's 1963 film Heat.
Her first film, Rudolfio, was directed in 1970. She joined the Lenfilm studio in 1974. Her films were popular in the Soviet Union, they focused on such themes as social problems, social conditions and the tension between adolescents and adults. Asanova never had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.