Sanzhar Madi
Also Known As: Санжар Мади, Sanzhar Madi, Sanzhar Madiyev, Sanzhar Madiev, 산자르 마디에브, 珊加馬帝
Biography: **Sanzhar Madi (Madiev)** is a Kazakhstani actor and director. He was born on **August 4, 1986**, in **Almaty**. Madi's film career began during his **second year of university**, when he started acting in commercials. His **big-screen debut** took place in **2009**, when he was offered the lead role in **Kuat Isaev’s** detective action film *"The Other Side"*. Some of the other films he has starred in include: *"City of Dreams"*, *"The Tale of the Pink Rabbit"*, *"The Return"*, *"My Heart – Astana"*, *"The Book of Legends: The Mysterious Forest"*, *"Girlfriends"*, *"Knight’s Move"*, *"Ghost Hunting"*, *"The Golden Horde"*, and others.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alma-Ata, USSR (Kazakhstan)
Adult: No
Birthday: August 04, 1986
Age: 38 years old
Gender: Male
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Ademoka’s Education
Overview: Ademoka is a headstrong and gifted 15-year-old girl whose big dream is to study. Her status as Lyuli an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan is a serious obstacle to this. She is exploited by her extended family and forced to beg on the streets, she manages to free herself from the family, when they get deported she has to choose between family and education. She gets helped on the way by some oddball characters, who come to her aid against the corrupt system and the patriarchal family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Overview: A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - the New Year's eve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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The Book of Legends: The Mysterious Forest
Overview: Bakha and Takha are the sons of a well-known businessman who are really into adventures and surprises. Once, the boys come across a story about the Queen of the Turkic Amazons who needs help to fight the Powers of Evil. The brothers decide to offer their help in exchange for a chance to bring their mother back to life and win back their father's attention. Meanwhile, the boys' stepmom hires two bandits to kidnap her unloved stepsons. The bandits drop the boys off in a forest and this is when the big adventure begins.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2012-12-10
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Return
Overview: The sons see their father for the last time. In a couple of years, a funeral and the Order of the Red Star will come to a small village. There are genuine tears in the eyes of the audience. After the war, the brothers Madi and Sagi leave to study in a big city. Life is going happily: the elder marries a young ballerina, becomes a famous journalist. But one day he goes to betrayal. The connection between the brothers is cut off forever. And only in his declining years, Madi goes in search of relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2011-08-01
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Hunting the Phantom
Overview: The action of this story begins in the near future. The great device codenamed as the “Phantom” is invented by the Global Security Corporation in order to eliminate the crime and to establish a secure global community. But, it is not how it really is. The reverse side of the “Phantom” is to establish an absolute control over people’s minds. The Corporation aims to change the course of the history, by gaining the community of obedient “puppets”, who would never realize that their minds are being controlled. Step by step, the “Phantom” fractures people’s lives, but nobody suspects anything, until it destroys the lives of in-love couple- Timur and Keira. She is convicted of murder, and he needs to break the law to save her. An American criminal hacker named Zach helps Timur to find the truth, and to uncover the Corporation’s conspiracy.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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Timur
Overview: Searching for stability and justice, Timur "The Lame" becomes a world conqueror in order to unify all people, nations, and tribes under one banner.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
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The Wife
Overview: In Kazakhstan, more than 400 women die every year as a result of domestic violence, and this number has increased significantly during the 2020 quarantine. Experts, lawyers, civic activists and victims who have experienced violence at home talk in detail about the problem and how to deal with it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Mountain Onion
Overview: The story of the growing up of 11-year-old Dzhabai, who sells mountain onions on the highway, who finds his mother with his idol, a truck driver, and goes to China for Viagra for his father that he becomes a strong man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2022-08-31
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Kelinka Sabina 3
Overview: Since childhood, Sabina dreamed of becoming a real star, and now, finally, her dream gets a chance to come true. But what price will she have to pay for it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-24
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The Donor
Overview: In ordinary life, Raushan and Zharkyn would never have met: Raushan is an ambitious businesswoman, Zharkyn is a single father whose life takes place behind the grill of an inexpensive kebab shop. Fate brings them together in an organ transplant clinic. Raushan is diagnosed with kidney failure, and Zharkin, who has lost his job and needs money, is forced to become a donor for Raushan. Before the operation, they will have to undergo a course in order to normalize the overall indicators of the body. After a while, the characters get closer, but their goal remains the same — kidney transplantation. On the day of the operation, Zharkyn will face a difficult choice: a large sum that will ensure a carefree life for him and his daughter, or saving Raushan's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Roots
Overview: Left without parents, having gone through hardships and hardships, Kasym ends up in a boarding school, where he learns true friendship and becomes a marksman. Growing up, he falls in love, goes through exploits and betrayal during the Great Patriotic War. A "thread" from the past helps him to keep a person in himself, which connects him with the roots of the family and the values of his ancestors.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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The Mongolian Connection
Overview: Working undercover on a human trafficking bust, maverick FBI agent Wade Dalton, captures Serick Ibrayev, a mysterious operative from the Mongolian underworld. With time running out, Wade must escort Serik back to Mongolia, and team up with hard-boiled police detective Ganzorig, to deliver Serik to court to testify against a crime Syndicate that will do anything to stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-12
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The Other Side
Overview: The story about detective Nurtas, who was once forced to face the "reverse side" of life, after which everything dramatically changed. Secret abduction of famous businessman, everyone from relatives and friends to enemies are suspected... Nurtas tries to find the truth, the price of which is high - 2 million dollars and fatal outcome. One and only clue is an accidental witness of the crime. Will Nurtas be able to win the war with the "reverse side" or criminal world will take over?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-08-10
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Guardians
Overview: During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-02-14
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The Knight's Move
Overview: Chess player Tigran unknowingly swallows a stolen ruby at the end of a tournament in Almaty and flies to Armenia. Felix must get back the ruby no matter what.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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Married at 30
Overview: Immersed in thoughts that no one needs her and no one will notice her absence, Anel decides to take a desperate step - voluntarily die. It is at this moment that life presents her with the desired gift - the man of her dreams, Dastan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Fake: Watch Yourself
Overview: A story about devastating consequences of online dating.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-07-07
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Amanat
Overview: A story that spans three periods in Kazakh history, it links mid 19th century struggles against the Russians to two 20th century episodes revolving around the fate of former political prisoner Ermukhan Bekmakhanov, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for writing historical books about Kazakh national hero Kenesary Kasymov and his national liberation movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-05-19
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Tale of a Pink Hare
Overview: Provincial guy Yerlan is a 3rd—year student of one of the Almaty universities. He came to the city hoping to succeed in the future. However, the environment of the golden youth, where he got, turned out to be difficult. It has its own laws, its own rules, and in order to preserve its moral principles, many things will have to be relived and experienced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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The Road to Home
Overview: After living across the border for a while Maksat goes back to home village to accept inheritance that left grandpa. Maksat is about to face unexpected surprises because life abroad has completely changed him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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Deadly Still
Overview: A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-06-14
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Clay Pit
Overview: In the Russian provinces life seems to have frozen since the 1990s. Here you can hide from the worries of the big world, and heal the wounds of the soul. Thus argues Mila, having decided to return home to the mother’s house after an unsuccessful attempt “to conquer Moscow”. Mila’s sister Galya also wants happiness without thinking about the price. The passion that is aroused in the women by Rustam, a young handsome man from Central Asia, disrupts the family peace. A terrible enlightenment awaits the participants of this family drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-06-03
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Paris Song
Overview: Based on a true story, a small-town Kazakh singer, Amre Kashaubayev, journeys to Paris to compete in an international singing competition at the 1925 Paris Expo. He meets American songwriter George Gershwin forming a beautiful and unlikely friendship. While Amre’s talent for singing opens up an exciting new world outside Kazakhstan, he is forced to choose between following his singing career and remaining loyal to his home country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Businessmen
Overview: Events in the "Businessmen" unfold in the era of the 90's, when the country is experiencing an economic crisis. Heroes of the film are among the first who stood at the origins of market relations in Kazakhstan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Dissolve
Overview: In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Atbai’s Fight
Overview: The film tells the story of a street thug Atbai, who decides to take part in MMA tournament, where the winners are already decided. But Atbai is going to win, because for him this victory is a chance to start a new life: to return to big sports and to get his beloved woman back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Yellow Cat
Overview: Ex-con Kermek and his beloved Eva want to leave their crime-infested lives on the Kazakh steppes behind. He has a dream: building a movie theater in the mountains. Will Kermek's love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep them out of the violent clutches of the mafia?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Ulbolsyn
Overview: Life in Karatas Village runs along an untroubled path, until its patriarchal way of life is challenged by Ulbolsyn, a woman whose coldblooded heart and blazing temperament are not afraid of setting everything on fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Astana, I Love You
Overview: A new project of Kazakhstani cinematographers under the general direction of Yegor Konchalovsky, which is a feature film. It consists of 10 unrelated film novellas directed by different directors. In its form, the project repeats the French "Paris, I love you", the American "New York, I love you", the Russian "Moscow, I love you!".
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Scarlet Sails: A New Story
Overview: Asel works as a pharmacist, and her life is quite ordinary. But she believes that miracles happen to everyone, you just have to wait for the moment. And with the light hand of her friend, it comes: Asel goes to the big city for a real ball. There, the man of her dreams, whom she met on the Internet, is waiting for her, and it seems that everything is starting to take shape like in a fairy tale. But in any fairy tale there is an evil witch…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-05-06
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Golden Eagle. Special Forces
Overview: A group of candidates undergoes trials to earn the maroon beret (special forces traditional hat). There are three friends among them who try to stick together - Ruslan, Kaysar, and Aibyn. Ruslan and Kaysar are taking the tough exam for the first time, while for Aibyn, it's his third attempt. Each of them dreams of joining the National Guard special unit, but only one of them is destined to make it to the final.
Genres: Action
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Big Little Life
Overview: Behind the fragile facade of a successful, self-sufficient and self-confident woman, Ayala, like all women of the subtle East, hides her big little life. Who is she? An ambitious businesswoman? Or a fragile, weak woman floating with the flow of her memories, trying not to drown in the quagmire of the past? But the most important question is: what is the real purpose of a woman - to love and remember, or to let go of the past and be loved?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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