Yermek Shinarbayev

Directing

Yermek Shinarbayev

Born 1953-01-24 · Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film "Revenge" (1990), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 1990.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing poster
10.0

Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories.

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

1987

The Place on the Tricorne poster
6.0

To do with himself in this world - the eternal question of youth. On the boys and girls wander from lane to lane, from apartment to apartment, get into fights, to the police station. At the same time they read wonderful poetry, listening to beautiful music, and sincere love. They have a delicate taste and a pure soul, but still to do with himself, where?

The Place on the Tricorne

1993

Revenge poster
6.1

Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

Revenge

1990

Abai poster
10.0

An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century.

Abai

1995

Kazakh Lessons poster
NR

The film tells the love story of a successful Sabine and a Kazakh language teacher Arman, who is expecting the birth of his son with his fiancee. Language lessons for Sabina become lessons of love that she must understand.

Kazakh Lessons

2021

Kazakh Lessons poster
NR

The film tells the love story of a successful Sabine and a Kazakh language teacher Arman, who is expecting the birth of his son with his fiancee. Language lessons for Sabina become lessons of love that she must understand.

Kazakh Lessons

2021

Kazakh Lessons poster
NR

The film tells the love story of a successful Sabine and a Kazakh language teacher Arman, who is expecting the birth of his son with his fiancee. Language lessons for Sabina become lessons of love that she must understand.

Kazakh Lessons

2021

Letters to an Angel poster
NR

Gulnara meets a man and spends the night with him. He tells her beautiful and romantic love stories. She told him about her tragic love for two men at once. One idolized her, the other was the personification of inconstancy and infidelity, but she loved them both. Everything changed on that terrible night when one of her lovers was found dead…

Letters to an Angel

2009

Letters to an Angel poster
NR

Gulnara meets a man and spends the night with him. He tells her beautiful and romantic love stories. She told him about her tragic love for two men at once. One idolized her, the other was the personification of inconstancy and infidelity, but she loved them both. Everything changed on that terrible night when one of her lovers was found dead…

Letters to an Angel

2009

La voix des steppes poster
NR

A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so much that he loses his ability to speak. Once he meets an old Kazakh who will teach him to hear again the world around him and will teach him how to speak again. The whole life of Anatole depends from now on from his ability to hear. His ear connects him to the world. 50 years later, the steppe calls him again.

La voix des steppes

2014

My Sister Lucy poster
6.0

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.

My Sister Lucy

1985

Tender Heart poster
8.0

A tragic love story of an ex-ballerina and a young guy.

Tender Heart

1994

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NR

The tape covers a period of time from 1937 to 1980. The main character of the picture - Khan Abroy left his homeland with the establishment of Soviet power. He lived happily and richly in China, but after learning that his native people were in poverty, he returned to his native land. This was a turning point in his life. Returning to his native land, Khan Abroy lost everything: his beloved woman, a high title, a house, property. A hell of camps and general contempt awaited him ahead.

Paradise Lost

2006

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NR

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New Wave

1983

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NR

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Monologues at the Piano

1986

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NR

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Mazhit Begalin

1981

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NR

The graduate work of the director Ermek Shinarbayev.

A Beauty in Mourning

1981

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NR

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Concert in Barbican Hall

1998

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NR

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Playing Brahms

1998

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NR

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Pictures From the Exhibition

2019

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NR

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Pictures From the Exhibition

2019

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NR

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Pictures From the Exhibition

2019

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NR

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Artist Erbolat Tolepbay

2013

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NR

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Artist Erbolat Tolepbay

2013