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Filmmaker · Kazakhstan

Sultan Khodzhikov

Died in 1988

Sultan Khodzhikov was born in 1923 in Kzyl-Orda, into a family of artists that counted among the founders of modern Kazakh arts. Trained at the Moscow film school, he built his career at the Alma-Ata studio. During the three years that the shooting of his major film lasted, he suffered a heart attack and relied on his assistants; the leader of the republic, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, had the funds that Moscow refused released. Khodzhikov died in Alma-Ata in 1988.

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