蒂娜拉·阿萨诺娃，Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (Russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) was born in Bishkek (formally Frunze) Kyrgyzstan on 24 October 1942. She was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the few notable and acclaimed female filmmakers of the late Soviet Union. She is best known for her films The Woodpecker Doesn’t Get Headaches (Ne bolit golova u dyatla) (1975) and Tough Kids or Boys (Patsany) (1983).[1] Although she was not very well known in the West, Asanova was popular in the USSR.[2] Her career spans over 25 years, ending with her death at the age of 42 due to a heart ailment. She died on 4 April 1985 in Murmansk, Soviet Union. 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.[1] Asanova rarely had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.