Kazakh film
Kasachfilm ( Kazakh Қазақфильм , Russian Казахфильм ) is the state Kazakhstan film production company with a movie studio in Almaty . At the time of the Kazakh SSR , practically all Kazakh films were produced here.
history
The studio was founded in 1934 as the Alma-Ata (now Almaty) documentary film studio. At first, newsreels were exclusively produced here, and documentaries and feature films were gradually added.
During the Second World War , Mosfilm and Lenfilm , the largest film production companies in the Soviet Union , were combined into one company in 1941 and evacuated to Alma-Ata. The most important Soviet directors of the time thus worked in Alma-Ata. Sergei Eisenstein , for example, shot Ivan the Terrible I and II here from 1943 to 1945. When it was possible to shoot again in Moscow and Leningrad after the end of the war, the new Alma-Ata studio for feature and documentary films was instead turned on January 25, 1944. This also specialized again in documentaries and newsreels, the few feature films produced here were on specifically Kazakh topics, for example the first Kazakh color film Djambul (1952) directed by Jefim Dsigan and starring Schäken Aimanow . In the course of the de-Stalinization , some non-Kazakh film directors also came to Kazachfilm to produce films as part of the Neuland campaign .
In 1960 the company was finally named Kazachfilm. In 1967 an animated film was produced for the first time. Schaken Ajmanow and his films are among the most important works of Kazakh films and in 1984 the studio in Alma-Ata was named after him.
Before perestroika , most of the Kazakh films were propaganda films , mostly transfigured period films or predictable romantic films . In 1984 the director Sergei Solowjow organized a workshop for several Kazakh filmmakers at the Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography (WGIK) in Moscow. The films made by the graduates of this university, who were then employed by Kazakh Film, are classified as the “New Kazakh Wave” because of their artistic innovation, their proximity to youth and subculture and their success at international festivals. Representatives of this movement included Raschid Nugmanow , in whose film Morphine - Die Nadel (1988) the well-known rock musician Viktor Zoi took the lead role, as well as Dariuszhan Omirbayev and Yermek Shinarbayev .
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio was able to be maintained through significant state subsidies. Some films have since been co-produced with production companies in western countries, especially with French production companies. Kazachfilm has been registered as a state stock corporation since 2005. The number of films is now around ten documentaries, six to seven feature films and five cartoons each year.
Filmography (selection)
- 1952: Djambul
- 1960: The station master ( Tischina )
- 1970: The End of the Ataman ( Konez Atamana )
- 1973: Wolves ( Ljutyj )
- 1974: Hey, you cowboys! ( Ej wy kowboi )
- 1977: Once and for life ( Odnashdy i na wsju shisn )
- 1978: Trans-Siberian Express ( Transsibirski Ekspress )
- 1979: Persecution in the steppe ( Pogonja w stepi )
- 1980: The messengers hurry ( Gonzy speschat )
- 1982: The House on the Water ( Soljonaja reka detstwa )
- 1983: Completely guilty ( Iskupi winu ... )
- 1984: The Shepherd's Ninth Son ( Bojsja, wrag, dewjatogo syna )
- 1984: The girl Sjurik ( Sladki sok wnutri trawy )
- 1984: Special order for Lieutenant Turasch ( Dogij miletschnij putj )
- 1985: You should get to know us! ( Snai naschich! )
- 1986: Snipers ( Snaipery )
- 1986: The Strange White ( Tschuschaja belaja i rjaboi )
- 1987: The fairy tale of the beautiful Aissulu ( Skaska o prekrasnoi Aissulu )
- 1988: Morphine - The Needle ( Igla )
- 1989: Revenge ( Mest )
- 1991: The young Kairat ( Kairat )
Web links
- Official website (Russian / Kazakh)