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Dinara Asanova
Soviet film director (1942-1985) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 42
Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed female filmmakers of the late Soviet Union. She is best known for her films Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975) and Tough Kids or Boys (Patsany) (1983).
Dinara Asanova is read about 95 times a day, in 16 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...Film, 1985Director
StrangerFilm, 1985Director1984
Children of StrifeFilm, Director, Writer1983
Tough KidsFilm, Director1982
The Useless GirlFilm, Director1981
What Would You Choose?Film, Director1980
The Wife Has LeftFilm, Director1978
TroubleFilm, Director1977
The Key That Should Not Be Handed OnFilm, Director1975
Woodpeckers Don't Get HeadachesFilm, Director1970
RudolfioFilm, Director, Writer1965Everyone Has Their Own PathFilm, Anara1942Born24 October 1942People around Dinara
Close ties
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Also in The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (1977)
Valeriy Priyomykhov Also in The Wife Has Left and The Useless Girl
Olga Mashnaya Dinara directed Boys (1983)
Aleksei Petrenko Dinara directed Trouble (1977)
Yelena Tsyplakova Dinara directed Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975)- Ekaterina Vasilieva Dinara directed Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975)
Yelena Solovey Dinara directed The Wife Has Left (1980)
Yelena Kuzmina Dinara directed Trouble (1977)
Elena Proklova Dinara directed The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (1977)- Yuri Klepikov Also in Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975)
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 14
19 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
About this person
Although she was not very well known in the West, Asanova was popular in the USSR. Her career spans over 25 years, ending with her death at the age of 42 due to a heart ailment. Between the years 1969 and 1984, Asanova made ten films. Her films often dealt with the subject of troubled adolescence and incorporated critiques on Soviet society. Asanova rarely had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.
