Rashid Nugmanov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-03-19 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Alma-Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Rashid Nugmanov

Biography

Rashid Nugmanov (Russian: Рашид Мусаевич Нугманов; born March 19, 1954; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director, dissident, political activist and founder of the Kazakh New Wave cinema movement. Rashid Nugmanov was born into a Muslim Kazakh family on March 19, 1954. After graduating in 1977 from the Architectural Institute in Alma-Ata, Nugmanov enrolled at the prestigious Moscow State Film Institute (VGIK), the world's first institute of cinematography in 1984. His directorial debut, The Needle, premiered in September 1988 at the "Golden Duke" Festival in Odesa, where it won the Un Certain Regard prize. Starring popular Soviet rock m...

Production

2010

The Needle Remix

as Producer

1989

The Needle

as Director

1993

The Wild East

as Writer

1993

The Wild East

as Producer

1971

The Snow Band

as Director

1971

The Snow Band

as Screenplay

1971

The Snow Band

as Producer

1971

The Snow Band

as Production Design

1977

Zgga

as Director

1977

Zgga

as Screenplay

1977

Zgga

as Producer

1977

Zgga

as Production Design

1986

Yahha

as Producer

1986

Yahha

as Production Design

1987

1989

The Needle

as Production Design

1993

The Wild East

as Production Design

2017

Memento Vivere

as Producer

2017

2010

1977

Zgga

as Editor

1971

The Snow Band

as Editor

2010

The Needle Remix

as Camera Operator

1975

Balapan

as Music Consultant

1986

The Stray White and the Speckled

as Assistant Director Trainee

2010

The Needle Remix

as Director

2010

1993

The Wild East

as Director

1986

Yahha

as Director

1986

Yahha

as Writer

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