Kalykbek Salykov

Biography

Kalykbek Sadykovich Salykov (Kazakh: Калыкбек Садыкович Салыков; born in 26 August 1954; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Kazakh New Wave.

Graduated from the directing department of the Alma-Ata State Theater Art Institute (1980), Alma-Ata Conservatory (1980). He worked at the Shymkent Regional Drama Theater (1980-1981). In cinema since 1981. He worked as an assistant director, a second director on a number of films ("Melon", "Legendary Chokan", "Chokan Valikhanov"), as a director he trained at Mosfilm and the Gorky Studio on the films "Red Bells" by Sergei Bondarchuk and "Faith, Hope, Love" by Vladimir Grammatikov. In 1984, he made...