Akhtem Seitablaiev
Biography: Crimean Tatar filmmaker. Akhtem Shevketovych Seitablayev, born 11 December 1972, is a Ukrainian actor, screenwriter and film director of the Crimean Tatars origin. He is the director of several high-profile films, including Haytarma in 2013 and Another's Prayer in 2017. He has expressed opposition to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and his films about the fate of several prominent Crimean Tatars have been praised throughout the former Soviet Union but criticized by hardline Russian nationalists. Seitablaiev was born in 1972 in Yangiyo‘l, then part of the Uzbek SSR. During the Stalinist period, his parents were deported by the Soviet authorities to Uzbekistan in the Sürgün since Crimean Tatars were one of the several ethnic groups to experience universal exile in the Stalin era. He attended school in Uzbekistan and remained in there with his family until they moved back to Crimea during the Perestroika era in 1989, where he began his film career in 1992 after graduating from the Crimean Cultural Enlightenment School. From 1992 to 2004 he worked at the Simferopol State Crimean Tatar Theater, where he directed several plays including works of Alexander Pushkin. In 2005 he began working at the Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left-bank of Dnieper. In 2009 he directed his first film, Quartet for Two. In 2013 he directed the movie Haytarma (English: Return) based on the real life of Amet-khan Sultan, a Crimean Tatar flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who witnessed the Sürgün but managed to avoid deportation due to his father's Lak ancestry and the intervention of Timofey Khryukin, commander of the 8th Air Army. The film was praised by the Kyiv Post as "must-see for history enthusiasts" and criticized by Komsomolskaya Pravda for depicting the NKVD officers doing the deportation as violent while portraying the deported women and children in a much more sympathetic light. Russian consul in Crimea Vladimir Andreev said the film was "distorting the truth", and attacked the movie for being made by Crimean Tatars, who he said deserved to be deported, but he admitted that he did not actually watch the film, and based his opinion that the movie was inaccurate only because it was made by Crimean Tatars. However, Andreev's orders telling Russians invited to the film to not attend resulted in several Russian generals invited to the premiere cancelling, though some still saw it. Andreev's comments sparked a huge backlash that led to his resignation, while Seitablayev jokingly thanked Andreev for giving the movie free advertising.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 11, 1972
Deathday: N/A
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Another Franko
2024-02-08
Another Franko
Overview: A historical drama dedicated to Ivan Franko's son Peter, who lived a life full of achievements and adventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2024-02-08
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Wind from the East
2021-07-16
Wind from the East
Overview: How does war resonate in a peaceful life? How does it melt in the mind of a creative person? In the documentary film "Wind from East" the authors are looking for answers to these questions. In the picture, the two worlds are peace and war, but peace is a theater where preparatory rehearsal work takes place, and war is also a theater, but at war. There is another world that stands alone - it is a play played by actors, rethinking their own experience of involvement in the war and the texts of Alexander Dovzhenko and contemporary Ukrainian authors. These worlds combine interviews with people, with those who joined the actors' trips to the east, with the military, who received the actors and became spectators directly on the front line.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Money Quest
2021-10-21
Money Quest
Overview: Pianist-adventurer Misha gets a job with the old owner of a mysterious house-quest. But he does not know that the question "WHERE IS THE MONEY?" interested not only in him. Everyone in this house is looking for money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Tatar Triptych
2004-04-09
Tatar Triptych
Overview: Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's "Crimean Stories": "In the Shackles of Satan", "On the Stone" and "Under the Minarets".
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tt
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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Mamay
2003-02-19
Mamay
Overview: Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2003-02-19
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Ukrainian Cinema. The Rise
2022-10-02
Ukrainian Cinema. The Rise
Overview: A documentary film about the rise of Ukrainian cinema both at the national level and on the international stage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2022-10-02
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I'm with you
2016-04-21
I'm with you
Overview: Two fellow athletes fall in love with the same girl. They try to get money for her treatment for cancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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The Fight Rules
2017-01-26
The Fight Rules
Overview: Film tells an exciting story of a confrontation between talented boxer and criminal patrons of mixed fights MMA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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Foreign Prayer
2017-05-18
Foreign Prayer
Overview: Nazi-occupied Crimea, 1944. A boy named Itzhak turns to Saide Arifova, a local Tatar Muslim woman, for help, explaining that he and a group of other Jewish orphans are hiding from the Nazis. Arifova faces a moral dilemma: should she try to help them or save herself by refusing? Despite the impending danger, she decides to protect the children by hiding them in plain sight, and disguising them as Tatars and adopting them into the local community.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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Khaytarma
2013-05-18
Khaytarma
Overview: The film tells about the tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar people — May 18, 1944 — Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The plot of the film — a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amethan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after liberation of Sevastopol Amethan goes on vacation to his native town Alupka. On May 18 his eyes witness begining of deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2013-05-18
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Homeward
2019-11-07
Homeward
Overview: Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Pulse
2021-07-22
Pulse
Overview: As a result of a terrible car accident, young Ukrainian athlete Oksana Boturchuk suffers several serious injuries, almost losing her eyesight. However, after long rehabilitation and a returning to incredible training, she is able to conquer a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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We Are Here. We Are Close
2021-07-08
We Are Here. We Are Close
Overview: Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man tenders his resignation. One autumn morning he is sitting on the riverbank in a favourite place where he used to fish with his godson. Suddenly he notices the figure of a shapely semi-naked girl emerging from the fog. She is shivering with cold. Alex spontaneously offers his help, and thus becomes part of an incredible adventure story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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The Daughter
2024-10-11
The Daughter
Overview: Seventeen-year-old hearing-impaired Olga, along with her father Roman, stepmother Marina and younger brother Sashko, is about to embark on a dangerous journey to the west of the country to escape the advancing Russian forces. However, their house is suddenly occupied by enemy soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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Wings
Wings
Overview: Andriy and Alina, two guardian angels, arrive on Earth to bring two destined lovers together for a great purpose. But when they meet Roma and Yulia, the angels wonder: can true love be forced? And what happens when they decide to let it grow naturally?
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Original Language: en
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