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Yermek Shinarbayev
Directing
24 Jan 1953 (73 years)
Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Biography
Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of...
Also Known As
Ермек Шинарбаев, Ermek Bektasuly Shynarbaev, Ermek Shinarbaev, Е. Шинарбаев
