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Filmmaker · Kazakhstan

Kanymbek Kasymbekov

Died in 2014

Kanymbek Kasymbekov (Kanymbek-Kano Kassymbekov) was born on 4 February 1943 in the village of Chien, in the Almaty region. He left school without knowing a word of Russian, went to Moscow to sit the entrance competition for the film school, submitted his application, failed, appealed to the rector, who gave the order to admit him. A graduate in directing in 1969 from the workshop of Grigori Chukhrai, he was assigned to the Alma-Ata studio. He made around ten fiction films, mostly for young audiences, and documentaries. He died in Almaty on 15 February 2014.

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