Mirlan Abdykalykov
Biography: In 2004 Mirlan ABDYKALYKOV graduated from Kyrgyz National State University, Journalism faculty. Prior to this, between 1990 and 2001, he played lead role in three films directed by Aktan ABDYKALYKOV (Swing, The Adopted Son and The Chimp). 2010-2017 he worked as First assistant director at The Light Thief and Centaur by Aktan Arym KUBAT. In 2010 debuted as film director with short fiction film Pencil Against Ants and in 2015 he made his first feature Heavenly Nomadic.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 03, 1982
Deathday: N/A
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This Is What I Remember
2023-09-21
This Is What I Remember
Overview: An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his matured son Kubat. Much has changed during his absence: the morals of the villagers, mired in the realities of a changing world, radicalization of Islam, growing crime, and moral corrosive corruption began to consume... Zarlyk’s wife Umsunai, having lost hope of his return, went into religion, married the local authority Jaichy. The bright past invades the already accustomed Umsunai’s life. But nothing touches Zarlyk. An inexplicable passion for collecting garbage replaced him everything. Will the memory return to him and will Umsunai gain lost happiness when they are pressed by tight attitudes and immorality of the clergy, when love has eclipsed recklessness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ky
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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The Chimp
2001-05-01
The Chimp
Overview: The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn as he sees his friends pair off into couples, and his job working on the railtracks is uninspiring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ky
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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The Swing
1994-02-08
The Swing
Overview: The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his autobiographical Kurak ("Quilt") Trilogy, followed by Beshkempir (The Adopted Son, 1998) and The Chimp (2001). Идиллия детства, радости, игры разрушается с возвращением в маленькое горное село моряка. В прекрасный мир девушки, мальчика и юродивого врывается великолепная морская форма с клешами и бескозыркой, и волшебная морская ракушка - источник всех их будущих бед.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ky
Release Date: 1994-02-08
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The Adopted Son
1999-02-10
The Adopted Son
Overview: In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of their own. Fast forward to his early teenage years, a pubescent Beshkempir is faced with all the problems of crushing on girls and courtship, reconciling with friends and dealing with death in the family. Above all he questions his place in the world as an adoptee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ky
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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Bus Stop
1995-01-01
Bus Stop
Overview: A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape, people wait. A boy, an adult, and an old man are at first joined by a woman, and then a disruptive drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ky
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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