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Kazakhstan

Filmmaker · Kazakhstan

Damir Manabaev

Damir Manabaev, whose Kazakh name is Dämir Käbekuly Manabai, was born on 11 June 1946. A graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Shymkent, he worked as a factory worker in Karatau, in Shymkent and then in Alma-Ata, and in 1978 graduated from the directing faculty of the Moscow film school, in the workshop of Yuri Egorov. He made Rodnye stepi in 1981 and Krik in 1986, then his major film on the famine; he is also credited with a drama in 2001, a film entitled Mest in 2006 and a first comedy in 2011, produced for the Kazakhfilm studio; a young cinematographer cites him as his teacher.

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