Darezhan Omirbayev

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-03-15 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Alekseevka, Kazazh ASSR, USSR (now Akkol, Kazakhstan)

Darezhan Omirbayev

Biography

Darezhan Omirbayev (Kazakh: Дәрежан Өмiрбаев; born 15 March 1958; Alekseevka) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director and screenwriter. His film "Killer" (1998) won Un Certain Regard at the 51st Cannes Film Festival. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Kazakh State University. He worked as a teacher and programmer, editor at the Kazakhfilm film studio. He studied at the directing faculty of VGIK. In 1987 he graduated from the Film studies Faculty of VGIK (workshop of A. Plakhov). Since 1988 — director of the Kazakhfilm film studio. Author of a number of articles on the theory of cinema, published in magazines: "N...

Production

1988

July

as Writer

1999

Killer

as Director

1999

Killer

as Writer

1995

Cardiogram

as Director

1995

Cardiogram

as Writer

1987

2012

Student

as Director

2012

Student

as Writer

1982

Live

as Director

2013

Reverence

as Writer

1986

The Stray White and the Speckled

as Assistant Director Trainee

2007

Chouga

as Director

2001

The Road

as Director

2021

Poet

as Writer

1992

Kairat

as Director

1992

Kairat

as Writer

1988

July

as Director

2022

Last Screening

as Director

2021

Poet

as Director

2006

About Love

as Director

2006

About Love

as Writer

2013

Reverence

as Director

2001

The Road

as Writer

2022

Last Screening

as Screenplay

2006

About love

as Director

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