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Kyrgyzstan

Filmmaker · Kyrgyzstan

Melis Ubukeev

Died in 1996

Melis Ubukeev was born on 17 April 1935 in Frunze, today Bishkek, and died on 27 July 1996. A graduate in history of the university of his city in 1958, he obtained in 1964 his diploma as a director from the Moscow film institute. A short documentary made in 1960 at the Kazakh studios had already let the language of his generation be heard. With Tolomush Okeev and Bolotbek Shamshiev, he formed what the Soviet Union called the Kyrgyz miracle. Having moved to television in 1974, he made there seven issues of a satirical filmed magazine and a documentary on the poet Alykul Osmonov.

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