Kenenbay Kozhabekov

Acting

Kenenbay Kozhabekov

Born — Died

1928-03-03 — 1988-11-03

Place of birth

Kaskelen, Kazakh ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Qaskeleng, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan]

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

He was born on March 3, 1928, in the village of Aksengir. He graduated from the acting department of the Almaty Theater and Arts College in 1950. In 1949, he made his film debut with the role of the Chukchi Ayye in the movie Alitet Leaves for the Mountains, directed by Mark Donskoy. Donskoy had also selected other future prominent actors, including Nurmukhan Zhanturin (who played the role of Tumatughe) and Gulfayrus Ismailova. From 1950 to 1967, he performed on the stage of the Kazakh Theater for Young Audiences (Kazakh TЮZ). From 1958, he was an actor at the Kazakhfilm studio, where a documentary film about him, The Return of Kenenbay, was made in 1975. In the late 1960s, during a fight w…

Known for

Шабандоз қыз poster
8.0

Aidar and Galiya have long been in love with each other. Aidar works as a horse breeder, and Galiya is a senior herdswoman at a collective farm stud farm. One day, due to an accidental misunderstanding, the young people quarrel. Angarbay, the store manager, who is also in love with Galiya, is trying to take advantage of this.

Шабандоз қыз

1955

Zhambyl poster
8.0

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev.

Zhambyl

1953

It's Time for Ringing Heat poster
NR

The film is dedicated to the life of a modern village, raises current problems of agriculture.

It's Time for Ringing Heat

1980

Lady Zhibek poster
8.5

Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh nation had its own Khan and each tried to supersede the other. The love story of Tolegen, the brave warrior, and the beauty Zhibek ends tragically because of inter-family strife. Tolegen is foully murdered by Bekejan (the batyr, or nobleman, of the rival family), who earlier strived for the hand of Zhibek. Zhibek commits suicide after learning about the death of Tolegen.

Lady Zhibek

1972

Hey You, the Cowboys! poster
NR

About a group of schoolchildren from a Kazakh aul who swore to one another that they would win the inter-collective farm sports competition.

Hey You, the Cowboys!

1975

Nesibeli poster
NR

A single woman, Nesibeli, raises her son and daughter without a husband. Despite the hardships, she remains cheerful, kind, and always ready to help others, which helps her overcome life’s challenges.

Nesibeli

1986

Film credits

1980s · 7 titles

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 4 titles

Шабандоз қыз poster
8.0

Aidar and Galiya have long been in love with each other. Aidar works as a horse breeder, and Galiya is a senior herdswoman at a collective farm stud farm. One day, due to an accidental misunderstanding, the young people quarrel. Angarbay, the store manager, who is also in love with Galiya, is trying to take advantage of this.

Шабандоз қыз

1955

Zhambyl poster
8.0

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev.

Zhambyl

1953

We Are From Semirechye poster
NR

Near the city of Verny, surrounded by Cossack patrols, the paths of three friends diverge. Instead of his native aul, Nartai finds only ruins. The death of his mother, the disappearance of his fiancée, and the oppression from the stanitsa ataman — all this forces Nartai to join the revolutionary struggle. Hunger and poverty, and pleas for bread greet the blacksmith Azim in his native Zhetysu. A Cossack horse kills Azim’s little son with a kick of its hoof when the boy reaches for scattered grains of bread. Grief turns the blacksmith into the leader of a starving, rebellious crowd. The fate of the third soldier is not easy either. Pavel Zernov, pausing only briefly at the bedside of his dying little son, hastens to rejoin his comrades who have gone underground.

We Are From Semirechye

1959

An Unquiet Spring poster
10.0

A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.

An Unquiet Spring

1956