- Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov ( _kz. Темір Нұрыахытұлы Бекмамбет; _ru. Тиму́р Нуруахи́тович Бекмамбе́тов, "Timur Nuruahitovič Bekmambetov"; born
25 June ,1961 ) is a Russian and Kazakh film and advertisement director. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067457/ Timur Bekmambetov ] ]Biography
Bekmambetov was born on June 25,1961 in Guryev,
Kazakh SSR ,USSR (nowAtyrau ,Kazakhstan ). At the age of 19, he moved toTashkent , then-Soviet Uzbekistan where in 1987 he graduated from the A. N. Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute in Tashkent. After serving in the army, he worked atIlkhom theater andUzbekfilm . It was there where he started his career as a movie director, and metViktor Verzhbitsky , a Tashkent-born actor who 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 " (2006), was likewise directed by Bekmambetov. He also directed theRoger Corman -producedremake of the 1974 film "The Arena" in 2001, also titled " The Arena" starringKaren McDougal andLisa Dergan . He shows a common soldier's view in the film "Escape from Afghanistan " (1994) that was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as adirect-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 byMark Millar . This same year it was released also the film "9", produced by Timur andTim Burton . "Twilight Watch", the third of the "Night Watch" series, is expected in 2009.Fact|date=June 2008References
External links
* [http://www.wantedmovie.com/ Official Site of the movie "Wanted"]
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* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/movies/05johnson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times: "From Russia, with Blood and Shape-Shifters"]
* [http://ekar.sitecity.ru/phtml_3009155147.phtml Bank Imperial ads]
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