Directing

Kalykbek Salykov

Born — Died

1954-08-26 — 1995-01-01

Place of birth

Alma-Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Kalykbek Sadykovich Salykov (Kazakh: Калыкбек Садыкович Салыков; born in 26 August 1954; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Kazakh New Wave. Graduated from the directing department of the Alma-Ata State Theater Art Institute (1980), Alma-Ata Conservatory (1980). He worked at the Shymkent Regional Drama Theater (1980-1981). In cinema since 1981. He worked as an assistant director, a second director on a number of films ("Melon", "Legendary Chokan", "Chokan Valikhanov"), as a director he trained at Mosfilm and the Gorky Studio on the films "Red Bells" by Sergei Bondarchuk and "Faith, Hope, Love" by Vladimir Grammatikov. In 1984, he made…

Known for

A mother can't stand her son, a sister can't stand her brother, a woman in love can't stand her lover... Love communication brings them neither joy nor liberation, giving them only some oblivion. All this is determined by the atmosphere of fear...

Lovers of December

1992

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Short film.

Golden Mekre

1985

No artwork available

Short film.

Tor

1984

6.0

A surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their refuge.