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Turkmenistan

Filmmaker · Turkmenistan

Khalmamed Kakabaev

Died in 2021

Khalmamed Kakabaev was born on 1 June 1939 in Turkmenistan. Trained in orchestral conducting, then in philology at the University of Ashgabat, he followed in Moscow the advanced courses for screenwriters and directors, completed in 1973. At the Ashgabat studio he made films on contemporary subjects and on subjects taken from the history of Turkmenistan and Russia, received the Magtymguly State Prize in 1980 and was made People's Artist of the republic in 1986. He then taught directing and died on 13 December 2021.

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