Zhan Baizhanbayev
Also Known As: Жан Байжанбаев, Zhanat Bayzhanbayev
Biography: He was born on August 5, 1961, in Almaty. His mother, Gulzhavgar Bayzhanbaeva (died in January 1999), worked for the Socialist Kazakhstan newspaper. His father, journalist Anuarbek Aukenev, passed away in 1961. He is the nephew of Anuarbek Nygmetzhanovich Bayzhanbaev (March 26, 1923, Semipalatinsk — October 21, 1989, Almaty), a renowned announcer of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Kazakh SSR, People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1973), Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR (since 1967), and Honored Radio Operator of the USSR (1958). During his school years, he was involved in swimming, Greco-Roman wrestling, and speed skating. He graduated with honors from the acting department of the Almaty State Theater and Art Institute in 1982. In the late 80s, he performed in the youth theater in Almaty, where he played numerous roles in various productions. He also worked with the Familiar Faces theater in Almaty. In 2013, he starred in the play America, based on Franz Kafka's novel, directed by Andreas Mertz from the Berlin Volksbühne Theater. Since 1984, he has been a permanent actor at the Kazakhfilm studio named after Sh. Aimanov, where he has worked since 1978. From 2002 to 2004, he was the head of the acting department at the Kazakhfilm studio. In 2016, he was part of the jury for Miss Almaty 2016. In 2017, he appeared in an advertisement for Shakh tea.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Birthday: August 05, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Racketeer
Overview: Story of a man named Sayan, that had to live through harsh 1990s and make tough decisions.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Goodbye, Medeo
Overview: The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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Porter: Errand Boy
Overview: The story of a screenwriter who gets a job as a doorman at a hotel to write a script for a movie about a hotel.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Aurora Borealis
Overview: The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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The Liquidator
Overview: A highly skilled bodyguard avenging his brother's untimely death uncovers a ring of corruption extending to the highest levels of society and government.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-04-07
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The Kazakh Business in India
Overview: Zhomart and his relatives work at the hotel and periodically get into various comical situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2022-08-10
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The Leader's Way. Astana
Overview: The president Nursultan Nazarbayev announces the transfer of the capital from Almaty to Akmola. Task is almost impossible: to transfer the capital from Alatau highland to the boundless steppes of Saryarka in a short time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2018-12-16
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We Are Adults
Overview: After graduating from school, Zholaman comes to the Mangyshlak peninsula and becomes an oil worker. Viewers will learn about how he grows up and matures, about his friends and his first youthful love…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Red Yurt
Overview: During the years of collectivization, the campaign team "Red Yurt" arrived in a remote Kazakh village. Fearing the organization of a collective farm in the village, the locals tried to flee abroad, but the members of the propaganda team engaged them in battle…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-01
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Wife is Not A Wall
Overview: A woman finds out that her husband is having an affair. Her best friend persuades her to find the mistress and eliminate her from his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Bisharashki 2
Overview: After returning from a vacation in an exotic country, Baytemir discovers that his house has been sealed. He is accused of fraud, and during the investigation his house, bank accounts and business are arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-12-28
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My Stranger
Overview: This story happened in the city of Almaty. Alisher, a young successful guy, one day meets a beautiful ambitious translator Eileen. They still do not understand that fate brought them together for a reason, and that there is one big secret behind their meeting. Young people fall in love with each other, but family secrets can change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2016-05-19
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Teach Me How to Live
Overview: A successful businessman by chance becomes a real mentor for a young waiter who accidentally saves his life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-11-09
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The House by the Salt Lake
Overview: The film is based on the complex intersections of human destinies during the Patriotic War. The family of the headmaster of the school, Turlyzhan Zhanakov, with their participation and care for disadvantaged people, show the high moral values inherent in Kazakhs. The house by the salt lake became a home for immigrants and evacuees and became a kind of Noah's Ark for the post-war future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Kazakh Business in Brazil
Overview: Three years have passed since the trip to India. Alain, Makpal, Yerkosh and Kazhet leave Jomart. Alain and Makpal show good results in the IT field, Bakdaulet opens a hostel in the foothills, Yerkosh goes into pop MMA. During this period, Jomart has a "midlife crisis".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-12-28
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Where is My Home?
Overview: Professor Denis Alfredovich from Almaty buys his dream house with the money he has been saving for many years. But when they move into a new house with their family, hoping to live happily ever after, their joy does not last long. After all, it turns out that the scammers sold the house to two more families using forged documents. Who is the legal owner of the house? Will the scammers be caught? Who's going to get the house anyway? And until the problem is solved, the three families who were victims of fraud must live in the same house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-08-17
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GOK
Overview: Businessmen from China are offered to sell the Kazakh GOK (Mining and Processing Plant). Oligarchs, petty officials, timid judges — each of them receives his share from the deal, however, one of them asks rare questions for an official: "Why sell the Homeland?" and "How much does it cost?"
Genres: Action
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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Oasis of love
Overview: After a conflict with her future stepfather, Lera decides to find her real father at all costs.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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Bride for a Brother
Overview: Batyrbek, failed the entrance examination to college, returned home to his native village. His younger brother Ayan Batyrbek decides to help start an independent life - to build a new house and find a suitable bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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Racketeer 2
Overview: Sayan has survived the accident but 10 years later the past comes after him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Burst
Overview: A drama about messed up athlete who tries to regain his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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Iron Mountain
Overview: The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarbayev, about the most important stages of his personality formation against the background of key events in the history of the country, when the future of Kazakhstan's industry was being built in the steppes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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The Kazakh Business in America
Overview: After closing the deal with foreign sponsors Zhomart hopes to get a five stars status to his little hotel but this plan goes south.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-12-28
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A Vacation in Thailand
Overview: A bunch of Kazakh students gets in trouble during vacation in Thailand and they are going to re-discover the meaning of friendship and trust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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Lair
Overview: A group of friends went on vacation to the Borovoye resort. Renting a cabin, little did they know about ending up in the middle of criminal conspiracy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-11-30
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The Victims Have No Grievance
Overview: A man was killed in the fight, another was seriously injured. The perpetrators confessed to what they had done. The investigator of the prosecutor's office Ilyas Sadykov had only to issue documents. But something in the testimony of the defendants alerted him, and Sadykov started the investigation anew...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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Akim
Overview: A young major named Azamat, accustomed to a comfortable city life, by coincidence, is sent to work as an akim in a remote village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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The Kazakh Business
Overview: A cosmopolitan Kazakh man decides to ask his rural Kazakh family members to work in his hotel - fun and chaos ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-29
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The Kazakh Business in Africa
Overview: Zhomart and Aisulu are newlyweds, they go on a honeymoon in Kazakh, that is, together with relatives. Aisulu strives to have a good time, but the inexorable desire to earn extra money every now and then forces Zhomart's relatives to form new and new business ideas. Jomart ignores “brilliant” ideas until he meets a mysterious Kenyan businessman who offers to make money on tea purchases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2018-12-27
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The Kazakh Business in Korea
Overview: The conference of the international company will be held at the Zhomart Kanatovich Hotel. A presentation of new equipment is planned. For this reason, Jomart begins to equip the hotel with high-tech household appliances. The doorman Bakdaulet accidentally breaks a very expensive client's equipment, and repairs can only be carried out in Seoul. The heroes decide to go to South Korea, only this time they leave Yerkosh in Kazakhstan to avoid unexpected adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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The Kazakh Business in Turkey
Overview: The successful hotelier Zhomart Kanatovich goes to the international level. Together with Alain, Roche, Bagdaulet and newcomer Marlene, they fly to Turkey to buy a hotel at auction. But buying a hotel is not an easy task and all the heroes are waiting for new adventures, tougher than those that were in America, Africa and Korea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2021-12-30
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Mother's Paradise
Overview: Serikpai and Amir grow up without a father, who once went to work in Russia, but never returned. They are waiting for him and hoping. Waiting for her husband and wife Polina. She remembers the short happiness of her former life. She tries to resist the current life, but it is given to her at too high a price…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2009-07-02
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Artemisia
Overview: Little Ergesh wants to help his sick grandfather buy expensive medicine. To earn the necessary money, he and the city guy Omash collect wormwood to deliver to the pharmacy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-04
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Bisharashki Inda Thailand
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-12-26
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The Blood Moon
Overview: A modern Kazakh version of Agatha Christie's plot: four married couples, two from Kazakhstan and two from Russia, win a vacation in a chalet in the Almaty mountains. But when they get together in a chalet, they are cut off from the outside world by an avalanche, and then a ruthless elimination game begins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 2024-04-18
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At Any Cost
Overview: Maksat works for a local TV channel. On the eve of his sister's wedding, he loses the money he raised to pay for the restaurant. The hero is ready for a lot, if only the family holiday still takes place. To do this, he suggests that his team do a talk show about his sister's wedding, but without telling his relatives about it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-11
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