Directing

Yermek Shinarbayev

Born January 24, 1953 · Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan) (age 73)

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 …

Known For

Trans-Siberian Express

Trans-Siberian Express · 1977

Trans-Siberian Express

MovieActionDrama

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

The Market: A Tale of Trade

The Market: A Tale of Trade · 2008

The Market: A Tale of Trade

A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing · 1987

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories.

My Sister Lucy

My Sister Lucy · 1985

MovieRomanceTV Movie

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.

Revenge

Revenge · 1990

MovieDramaHistory

Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

Abai

An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century.

A Taste of Bread

A Taste of Bread · 1979

A Taste of Bread

MovieDramaTV Movie

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

Tender Heart

Tender Heart · 1994

A tragic love story of an ex-ballerina and a young guy.

Filmography

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Trans-Siberian Express

Trans-Siberian Express · 1977

Trans-Siberian Express

MovieActionDrama

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

Assistant Director

The Market: A Tale of Trade

The Market: A Tale of Trade · 2008

The Market: A Tale of Trade

A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.

Associate Producer

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing · 1987

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories.

Director

My Sister Lucy

My Sister Lucy · 1985

MovieRomanceTV Movie

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.

Director

Revenge

Revenge · 1990

MovieDramaHistory

Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

Director

Abai

An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century.

Producer

A Taste of Bread

A Taste of Bread · 1979

A Taste of Bread

MovieDramaTV Movie

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

Assistant Director

Tender Heart

Tender Heart · 1994

A tragic love story of an ex-ballerina and a young guy.

Director

The Place on the Tricorne

The Place on the Tricorne · 1993

The Place on the Tricorne

To do with himself in this world - the eternal question of youth. On the boys and girls wander from lane to lane, from apartment to apartment, get into fights, to the police station. At the same time they read wonderful poetry, listening to beautiful music, and sincere love. They have a delicate taste and a pure soul, but still to do with himself, where?

Director

La voix des steppes

La voix des steppes · 2014

La voix des steppes

MovieDramaMusic

A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so much that he loses his ability to speak. Once he meets an old Kazakh who will teach him to hear again the world around him and will teach him how to speak again. The whole life of Anatole depends from now on from his ability to hear. His ear connects him to the world. 50 years later, the steppe calls him again.

Director

Letters to an Angel

Letters to an Angel · 2009

Letters to an Angel

Gulnara meets a man and spends the night with him. He tells her beautiful and romantic love stories. She told him about her tragic love for two men at once. One idolized her, the other was the personification of inconstancy and infidelity, but she loved them both. Everything changed on that terrible night when one of her lovers was found dead…

Screenplay

Kazakh Lessons

Kazakh Lessons · 2021

The film tells the love story of a successful Sabine and a Kazakh language teacher Arman, who is expecting the birth of his son with his fiancee. Language lessons for Sabina become lessons of love that she must understand.

Producer