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Timur Bekmambetov
Тимур Бекмамбетов
Birth at
25 June 1961
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Timur Nurbakhitovich Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in the city of Guryev (now Atyrau), Kazakhstan. After graduation he entered the Moscow Energy Institute. And in 1980 he moved to Tashkent, where he studied at the A.N. Ostrovsky Theater and Art Institute at the Faculty of Painting, specializing in “Theater and Cinema Artist”. After graduation, he worked as an artist in the Ilkhom Theater and at the Uzbekfilm Film Studio. He served in the army for 2 years and moved to Moscow in 1989. Here
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Timur Nurbakhitovich Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in the city of Guryev (now Atyrau), Kazakhstan. After graduation he entered the Moscow Energy Institute. And in 1980 he moved to Tashkent, where he studied at the A.N. Ostrovsky Theater and Art Institute at the Faculty of Painting, specializing in “Theater and Cinema Artist”. After graduation, he worked as an artist in the Ilkhom Theater and at the Uzbekfilm Film Studio. He served in the army for 2 years and moved to Moscow in 1989. Here Timur achieved recognition as the creator of commercials and music videos. The most famous of them are advertising “Kamaza” (“Tanks of mud are not afraid”), bars “Mars”, “World History”. Bank Imperial. In 1994, Timur founded the Imperial Film Company. In the same year, he made his debut as a screenwriter and director in the film Peshawar Waltz. The film won a number of awards at the Russian film festival “Kinotavr”, at the film festival in Sorrento and received the award for best director in Karlovy Vary.
In 1999, Timur Bekmambetov founded the film company Baselevs. Since 2000 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Advertising. In 2001, at the invitation of producer Roger Corman, he became the director of the adventure action movie Arena at a Hollywood film studio. The outstanding directorial work of Russian cinema was the film
Night Watch" (2004), based on the novel by Sergei Lukyanenko. The film stars of Russian cinema play, it enjoyed success in many countries. No less interesting was the continuation of the picture
Day Watch" (2006). For Hollywood, Timur is shooting a super hit
"Especially dangerous" (2008). The next Hollywood film is President Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter. The amazing cultural gift of Timur Bekmambetov is noted, he is considered a genius of mass culture. This is a man who managed to win over both the Russian and American public.