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Filmmaker · Kazakhstan

Shaken Aimanov

Died in 1970

Shaken Aimanov was born on 15 February 1914 in Bayanaul, in the Pavlodar region. Noticed in 1933 by the writer Gabit Musrepov, he became an actor and then a director at the Kazakh drama theatre, famous for his Shakespearean roles, and appeared in films from 1937, up to the title role in Dzhambul. Having moved into directing in the early 1950s with Poem of Love, he became artistic director of the studio and first secretary of the Union of Filmmakers of Kazakhstan, and made popular comedies as well as The End of the Ataman. He died on 23 December 1970 in Moscow, knocked down by a car.

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