Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Acting

Nurzhuman Ihtymbaev

Born

1941-05-14 (85)

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Day Watch poster
6.1

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

Day Watch

2006

Night Watch poster
6.2

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage

Night Watch

2004

Human Factor poster
7.0

The young and principled Daria Karatayeva, an economist at a garment factory, having witnessed major financial violations, enters into an irreconcilable struggle with the leadership. Trying to put the investigation on the wrong track, the criminals set fire to a freight car at the railway station. By sacrificing himself, Darius prevents a fire.

Human Factor

1985

Chief Designer poster
8.5

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII.

Chief Designer

1980

First Cavalry poster
5.7

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" - thus began the history of the campaigns "through valleys and up hills" of the legendary First Cavalry Army.

First Cavalry

1984

Road of a Thousand Miles poster
8.0

Commissar Ali-Akbar travels a thousand miles across the desert with his international detachment, trying to deliver weapons to the Red Army during the civil war in Kazakhstan.

Road of a Thousand Miles

1968

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 9 titles

Day Watch poster
6.1

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

Day Watch

2006

Night Watch poster
6.2

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage

Night Watch

2004

The House by the Salt Lake poster
NR

The film is based on the complex intersections of human destinies during the Patriotic War. The family of the headmaster of the school, Turlyzhan Zhanakov, with their participation and care for disadvantaged people, show the high moral values inherent in Kazakhs. The house by the salt lake became a home for immigrants and evacuees and became a kind of Noah's Ark for the post-war future.

The House by the Salt Lake

2004

The Gift to Stalin poster
6.4

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.

The Gift to Stalin

2008

Steppe Express poster
NR

A way station is lost in the boundless Kazakh steppe. A wayfarer lives in a small house with his daughter Saule.

Steppe Express

2005

Notes of a Wayfarer poster
NR

A blind old man lives in a lost way station. He intuitively determines the condition of the railway tracks, which are monitored by his son. Every month, a track meter equipped with state-of-the-art technology passes through the stop, but its readings differ from what the old man feels about the road. The son finds himself in a dilemma: which to trust more — his father's intuition or the indications of the computer? After all, the lives of hundreds of passengers depend on the right decision.

Notes of a Wayfarer

2006

Seker poster
7.0

Seker is a girl who was raised as a son by a father who wanted his first child to be a boy as tradition in the countryside family demands. When Seker approaches the age of adolescence she faces a mandate from the local school: put on a dress or don't return. So finally gaining her father's permission she turns from a fist-fighting boy into a blossoming young girl.

Seker

2009

Kadyr's Happiness poster
NR

The main character Kadyr decides to change his life and goes in search of his happiness. A lot of adventures await him on his way...

Kadyr's Happiness

2000

Patchwork Quilt poster
NR

The five–year-old hero of the film, a city boy Kenzhe, finds himself in the village with his grandparents, while his father is sorting out trying to establish his business. Here are the key moments of Kenje's growing up, full of vivid impressions.

Patchwork Quilt

2007

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 19 titles

Human Factor poster
7.0

The young and principled Daria Karatayeva, an economist at a garment factory, having witnessed major financial violations, enters into an irreconcilable struggle with the leadership. Trying to put the investigation on the wrong track, the criminals set fire to a freight car at the railway station. By sacrificing himself, Darius prevents a fire.

Human Factor

1985

Chief Designer poster
8.5

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII.

Chief Designer

1980

First Cavalry poster
5.7

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" - thus began the history of the campaigns "through valleys and up hills" of the legendary First Cavalry Army.

First Cavalry

1984

Persecution poster
10.0

20s south of Kyrgyzstan. Platoon commander Abysh Isaev arrives at the military garrison. His task, together with the red commander Valentin Ugryumov, is to stop the bloodshed and destruction perpetrated by Shaanazar’s Basmach detachment, and to return the farmers to their homes.

Persecution

1989

A Wolf Cub Among People poster
7.5

Story of a rough little boy in Kazakh society in the last years of the USSR, owes something to the Italian neo realist movement of the 1940s.

A Wolf Cub Among People

1988

By the Field's Curb poster
9.0

The famous striker of the capital's football team Askar Temirov, having said goodbye to big sports, returns to his hometown to train the regional team.

By the Field's Curb

1982

Roads Converged poster
7.0

To build a house and feed his family, Deles went to the mountain camps as a shepherd. With all sorts of promises and temptations, local businessmen gradually connected Deles to their machinations — and the young shepherd very soon built a huge house, bought a car, found prosperity and lost his family.

Roads Converged

1987

Красная юрта poster
NR

During the years of collectivization, the campaign team "Red Yurt" arrived in a remote Kazakh village. Fearing the organization of a collective farm in the village, the locals tried to flee abroad, but the members of the propaganda team engaged them in battle…

Красная юрта

1982

A Man on a Motorcycle poster
NR

A young miner Ahan is fond of photo hunting. During one of the trips to the mountains, he photographed poachers at the crime scene. Despite threats and blackmail, Ahan exposes the criminals...

A Man on a Motorcycle

1986

The Tale of the Beautiful Aisulu poster
10.0

One day, while hunting, the young khan Tauekel met the beautiful Aisula, the shepherd's daughter, and brought her to the palace, soon celebrating a magnificent wedding. Aisula was not interested in palace intrigues. The girl fed snow-white pigeons, took care of greenhouse plants, quenched her curiosity by talking to a wise astronomer at the observatory. Love transformed Khan Taukel, belligerence began to grow into wisdom, awakening mercy and kindness. But the insidious sister of Khan Karashash, who has long dreamed of power, took advantage of her brother's forced departure and slandered the shepherd's daughter, spreading a rumor that she had given birth to two puppies.

The Tale of the Beautiful Aisulu

1987

The Shelter for Majors poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Shelter for Majors

1988

My Home on the Green Hills poster
10.0

It's so different — the world of our childhood. For Arman, the little hero of the film, these are endless meadows and snow—white flocks of sheep grazing on the steep slopes of green hills, the calm warmth of a yurt, an ancient stone baba, to which a real hunting golden eagle arrives every day, a smart dog Aktaban, boundless expanse and clear sky overhead. And suddenly this familiar world narrowed down to the size of a city boarding school with unusual laws, unfamiliar people - Arman went to the first grade.

My Home on the Green Hills

1985

The Touch poster
4.5

On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically.

The Touch

1989

The Messengers Hurry poster
9.0

The film is about the heroic struggle of the Kazakh people against the hordes of bloodthirsty Dzungars and the victory over the Dzungars (XVIII century).

The Messengers Hurry

1980

The Deer Man poster
7.5

High in the mountains, the forester Aktan lives alone with his mute aunt in an abandoned village. People's lives seem wrong and vain to him. But he likes his own less and less. A collision with people who predationally exploit nature forces Actan to actively interfere in their lives.

The Deer Man

1985

Turksib poster
8.0

A historical drama set during the 1929 construction of the Turkestan–Siberian Railway, contrasting modernization with traditional life in the Kazakh steppe.

Turksib

1986

The Return of Olmets poster
10.0

Three brothers were waiting for their father Olmes to return from the war, imagining him as a hero, like the former circus performer Anuar, who had actually fallen from grace and started stealing. When Olmes returned, the children were disappointed by his appearance, but during the kokpar game, he defeated Anuar, who was trying to cheat.

The Return of Olmets

1984

The Great Samoyed poster
7.0

The eventful history of Tyko Vylka, the first Nenets artist, cartographer, polar explorer, participant in World War II, chairman of the Novaya Zemlya Island Council.

The Great Samoyed

1982

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The First

1985

1970s · 17 titles

Don Quixote of My Childhood poster
NR

The parable is about a young man who lives in his imaginary world and gets into various funny situations.

Don Quixote of My Childhood

1978

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Еhird Side of the Coin

1977

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

The End of the Ataman poster
5.4

A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.

The End of the Ataman

1970

Forest Ballad poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Forest Ballad

1972

The Treasure of the Black Mountains poster
NR

The film takes place at the recently opened Nartas mine, part of a large mining complex. Due to many reasons, the mine is undersupplied in ore. Nariman Danaev, the young head of the mine, offers a way out of this situation. He meets with both support and resistance. Thus, behind the production problems there is a struggle of characters, views, and different attitudes. The conflict is moving into the moral sphere. A difficult situation develops in the personal life of the main character.

The Treasure of the Black Mountains

1979

Winter is Not a Field Season poster
NR

Kariev cannot defend his PhD thesis because he does not have the necessary theoretical basis for his idea. Young geologists - Kurov, Mukhamedov and Saraev, who worked in the geological party under the leadership of Kariev, help him, showing the ability to solve major scientific problems.

Winter is Not a Field Season

1972

Little Soldier poster
NR

Once in a war movie, Avalbek "recognized" his father in a soldier walking with a grenade at a fascist tank. And no one dared to disabuse the boy of this.

Little Soldier

1975

White Square poster
NR

A young boxer named Kuat, who is brought up in the ring by a wise and demanding trainer, achieves considerable success and becomes a good athlete. He finds his happiness in great love...

White Square

1971

Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul poster
9.0

Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border.

Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul

1971

At Red Stones Outpost poster
NR

The film takes place near the border outpost "Red Stones". Three guys: the grandson of a herdsman, his cousin, who came on vacation from the city and the daughter of the head of the frontier post, met by chance in the Kazakh border steppes, where they spent time playing games. But when the real danger comes to replace the games, the guys proved to be real border guards.

At Red Stones Outpost

1970

A Taste of Bread poster
5.0

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

A Taste of Bread

1979

Hawthorn poster
NR

About the Soviet man, his honesty, intransigence with evil.

Hawthorn

1979

In Those Days poster
NR

A historical-revolutionary film based on real events in the small Kazakh settlement of Ridder, where news of the revolution in Petrograd arrives. A strike breaks out at the mines owned by a British joint-stock company.

In Those Days

1970

On the Night of Lunar Eclipse poster
NR

The film is based on the play of the same name by the national poet of Bashkortostan Mustai Karim. The events of the film take place in the XVII century. Drama from the history of the Bashkir people.

On the Night of Lunar Eclipse

1978

The Choice poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Choice

1975

1960s · 4 titles

Road of a Thousand Miles poster
8.0

Commissar Ali-Akbar travels a thousand miles across the desert with his international detachment, trying to deliver weapons to the Red Army during the civil war in Kazakhstan.

Road of a Thousand Miles

1968

The Song of Manshuk poster
7.0

The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery. The film recreates the past and shows a day of combat life Manshuk and her comrades, who took unequal battle with German tanks.

The Song of Manshuk

1969

Journey to Childhood poster
NR

The writer Bektas-agha, arriving in his native village, remembers his childhood: his mother died early, his careless father, who married the beautiful Kulimbala, the teacher Sagatbai. It was a time of collectivization. Bai and his henchmen, playing on the feelings of people expecting hunger, persuaded the collective farmers to barytma — stealing the herd from the neighbors. The members of the cell offered to punish all the perpetrators, but they made up the majority of the residents of the village. The teacher convinced that it is impossible to punish the people for their darkness, it is necessary to find the instigators. So, overcoming their illiteracy, the resistance of the Bay bandits, the collective farmers gradually improved their lives.

Journey to Childhood

1968

Worrisome Morning poster
NR

1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is not numerous. The story of the film unfolds quickly, it is a typical "Ostern" — an oriental action movie: shooting, chase, dancing of beautiful girls, but at the same time, along the film line, there is a smell of mysterious gossip and repression with characters.

Worrisome Morning

1968