Shaken Aimanov

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Shaken Aimanov

Born 1914-10-16 Bayanaul, Bayanaul district, Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan 13 films

Shaken Kenzhetaevich Aimanov (Kazakh: Шәкен Кенжетайұлы Айманов; born 15 October 1914 – 23 December 1970; Bayanaul) was a Soviet (Kazakh) film director, screenwriter, actor. He is considered to be the father of Kazakh cinematography, as well as an iconic film director and actor. He directed eleven films between 1954 and 1970. Aimanov was born in Bayanaul, Russian Empire (now Kazakhstan) in 1914. He studied at the Kazakh Institute of Education in Semipalat…

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Filmography

13 films
Wings of Song poster

Bai Nurtaza hopes to find in the young poet, ambitious and not indifferent to female beauty, a loya…

Wings of Song

★ 0.0 1966

Here We Live poster

1954. The first detachment of young virgin lands arrives in the remote Kazakh steppe. The old fores…

Here We Live

★ 8.0 1956

Zhambyl poster

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzha…

Zhambyl

★ 8.0 1953

Golden Horn poster

High in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau there is an experimental station of the Kazakh Instit…

Golden Horn

★ 0.0 1948

Songs of Abai poster

The screen adaptation of the novel "Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov recreates the story of prominent Kazakh…

Songs of Abai

★ 6.5 1946

White Rose poster

The granddaughter of the old man Jagpara Sabira is beautiful, spoiled, cunning. Several young men i…

White Rose

★ 8.0 1943