Yermek Shinarbayev

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-01-24 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Yermek Shinarbayev

Biography

Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film "Revenge" (1990), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi...

Acting

Production

1995

Abai

as Producer

1981

Mazhit Begalin

as Director

1983

New Wave

as Director

1983

Rodeo

as Director

1998

Duet

as Director

1998

Playing Brahms

as Director

1998

Master Class

as Director

2006

Paradise Lost

as Director

2009

Letters to an Angel

as Screenplay

2016

Aktoty

as Director

2016

Aktoty

as Writer

2021

Kazakh Lessons

as Director

2021

Kazakh Lessons

as Screenplay

2021

Kazakh Lessons

as Producer

1998

Duet

as Producer

1977

Trans-Siberian Express

as Assistant Director

1979

A Taste of Bread

as Assistant Director

2008

The Market: A Tale of Trade

as Associate Producer

1994

Tender Heart

as Director

1990

Revenge

as Director

1981

1985

My Sister Lucy

as Director

2009

2014

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