Yasmin Hiasche is a talented actress and martial artist who has appeared in some of Hollywood’s best films such as Pleasantville, Get Shorty and Swing Vote. Recently however, she has managed to steal the limelight with her starring role in the romantic webseries called Age of Youth. Hiasche plays Natalia, an Asian American who falls in love with an aging Russian man called Alexi after he visits her at the nursing home where she works. When Natalia realizes that Alexi is not dying with age she plans to marry him but instead gets suspicious about the true motives of the man she loves.
Age of Youth takes place in the 1990s in the remote reaches of a small country called Uzbekistan. The film is based on the real life events that happened in this country when Alexi and Natalia had their romance started. According to IMDB, Hiasche plays Natalia, an Asian American, who is married to an older Russian in the midst of World War III. In this film, Hiasche plays the role of a devoted wife who adores her husband and only wants the best for him while her national identity is also torn apart by her desire to remain a national and patriotic citizen of her land. This shows how Nationality affects people around the world.
Age of Youth is one of the most talked about movies of the year with both the critics and audiences lauding Hiasche’s work. Many reviews of the film have highlighted the strong female characters that are featured prominently in the film such as Natalia’s struggle to maintain her identity and remain loyal to her husband, while also finding love with another man. The film did however receive a fair amount of criticism from the Chinese Government, which claimed that many of Hiasche’s characters were misrepresented as Chinese. The government also pointed out several other scenes that they considered to be inappropriate such as the rape of a Chinese girl and the use of a child as a weapon.