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Turkmenistan

Filmmaker · Turkmenistan

Yazgeldy Seidov

Died in 2023

Ýazgeldi Seýidow was born on 10 June 1932 in the village of Ata, in the Sarakhs district. A geology student, he also learned music and sang at the Ashgabat opera, then in 1956 entered the Moscow Film Institute, in the workshop of Lev Kuleshov and Alexandra Khokhlova, from which he graduated only in 1970. He built his career at the Turkmenfilm studio, directed many documentaries and fiction films, and received the State Prize of the Soviet Union for a film made with Usman Saparow. He died in Moscow in December 2023, aged ninety-one.

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