Amir Karakulov

Amir Karakulov

출생 : 1965-09-11, Alma-Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

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Amir Bulatovich Karakulov (Kazakh: Амир Булатович Каракулов; 11 September 1965; Alma Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh director and screenwriter. He is the only Kazakh director who has received Tiger Award (won the 26th Rotterdam Film Festival) for film "Last Holiday" (1996). He studied at the University of Kazakhstan, worked there for two years in the journalism department and then studied for three years at the Moscow film academy VGIK. His feature debut "Woman Between Two Brothers" was given the Fipresci Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.

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Amir Karakulov

참여 작품

Due to Insignificance
Director
The old man’s last wish – to fulfill the Kazakh tradition and put his grandson on a stallion – is shattered by everyday life, bureaucracy and loneliness, remaining unfulfilled. The music of Johann Bach on the dombra emphasizes pain and hope.
Unreal Love
Director
A successful careerist is in the love triangle between her shy colleague and high-profile boss. Thinking that she can't get involved with married men anymore Elya tries online dating and falls in love with some mysterious dude in the Internet.
Don't Cry
Director
The story of a Chinese-trained opera singer living in a remote Kazakh village with her grandmother and her ailing young niece. The bulk of the action consists of the steadfast heroine trying to make enough money to get the rare and costly medicine that may save her niece's life. What makes the film so thrilling is that this elemental situation allows the director and his cast of non-actors to illuminate the details of everyday life: reality and fiction dissolve into each other, and the audience achieves a heightened awareness of simple activities like the cooking of a meal, teaching a child to count in Chinese and English, visits to the doctor or the marketplace. Entirely improvised by the filmmaker and his actors.
Last Vacation
Director
May Day in Alma Ata, 1979. Valera, Karim and Jacob are a crew of hard-partying, drug-taking teenagers looking for kicks during their spring holiday, and they break into the bar at the Highland ice rink and steal an electric guitar. When Valera's dad finds the guitar, he turns his son over to the police, who brutalize him and leave him severely wounded on the outskirts of town. Karim and Jacob kill Valera's father, then hide their friend and do their best to keep him alive.
The Dove's Bell-ringer
Director
Directed by Amir Karakulov.
Woman Between Two Brothers
Director
Two brothers are in love with the same woman and she can't decide between them.