Darezhan Omirbaev

Darezhan Omirbaev
Born	(1958-03-15) March 15, 1958
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1982 - present

Darezhan Omirbaev (Template:Lang-kk, born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1982 - six features, one medium length digital film, and three shorts. His first short, Shilde, shot in black and white, is autobiographical, as are his first two features Kairat (also shot in black and white) and Kardiogramma. Tueur à gages, a crime story inspired by Tolstoy's "The Forged Coupon" (the basis for L'Argent by Robert Bresson, a filmmaker much admired by Omirbaev), screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize. The Road, Omirbaev's subsequent film, was a return to autobiography, a poetic story of a filmmaker in the vein of 8 1/2, starring Tajik filmmaker Djamshed Usmonov. About Love, based on a story by Chekhov but also a kind of sequel to Kairat, was Omirbaev's contribution to the Jeonju Film Festival's annual collection of short digital pieces commissioned from filmmakers around the world. Shuga and Student were departures for Omirbaev, both based on literary works - respectively, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Student competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

• Zhizn (short) (1982)
• July (short) (1988)
• Kairat (1992)
• Cardiogram (1995)
• Killer (1998)
• The Road (2001)
• About Love (medium-length film included in Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her) (2006)
• Shuga (2007)
• Student (2012)
• Reverence (Documentary short, co-directed by Olga Korotko) (2013)

External links

• Darezhan Omirbaev at IMDb