Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Bekmambetov | |
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| Born | Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov |
| Occupation(s) | film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Template:Lang-kz; Template:Lang-ru, born June 25, 1961) is a Kazakh and Russian film and advertisement director.[1]
Biography
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Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan). His father - Nuruakhit Bekmambetov is Kazakh, his mother - Mira Slobodskaya is an Ashkenazi Jew. At the age of 19, he moved to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then-Uzbek SSR, where in 1987 he graduated from the A. N. Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute. After serving in the army, he started his career with movie director Viktor Verzhbitsky, who later became Bekmambetov's closest colleague and played in almost all of the movies directed by him.
Between 1992 and 1997, Bekmambetov was one of the directors of the popular World History advertisements for the Bank Imperial.
In 2004, Bekmambetov directed Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko. The sequel, Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor) (2006), was likewise directed by Bekmambetov. He also directed the Roger Corman-produced remake of the 1974 film The Arena in 2001, also titled The Arena starring Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. He shows a common soldier's view in the film Peshavar Waltz aka Escape from Afghanistan (1994) that was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as a direct-to-video production in 2002.
Bekmambetov's Wanted was released on June 27, 2008 in the US. The film, Bekmambetov's Hollywood debut, is based upon a comic-book miniseries of the same name written by Mark Millar. The film 9, produced by Timur and Tim Burton, was released on September 9, 2009. Twilight Watch, the third of the Night Watch series, is expected in 2009.[citation needed] Timur also informed that the screenplay for the sequel of Wanted is complete and production will begin shortly.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Screenwriter | ||
| 1994 | Peshavar Waltz | Yes | Yes | |
| 2001 | The Arena | Yes | ||
| 2004 | Night Watch | Yes | Yes | |
| 2006 | Day Watch | Yes | Yes | |
| 2007 | The Irony of Fate 2 | Yes | ||
| 2008 | Wanted | Yes | ||
| 2009 | Dead Spy Running | Yes | ||
| 2009 | 9 | Yes | ||
| 2009 | Moby Dick | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | The Knights Templar | Yes | ||