Rashid Nugmanov

Rashid Nugmanov was born on 19 March 1954 in Alma-Ata. A graduate of his city's architecture institute in 1977, familiar with the underground rock scene of Leningrad, which he filmed as early as 1986 in a short documentary with Viktor Tsoi, he entered the Moscow film school in 1984. President of the Union of Kazakh Filmmakers from 1989 to 1992, settled in Paris in 1993, he still made Le Far-East sauvage, then became an activist in the Kazakh opposition; France made him a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2017.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe NeedleIglaRashid Nugmanov · 1988Cinema