Darezhan Omirbaev Kazakh ??????? ??i????? born 15 March 1958 Alekseevka is a Soviet and Kazakh film director and screenwriter His film Killer 1998 won Un Certain Regard at the 51st Cannes Film Festival In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Kazakh State University He worked as a teacher and programmer editor at the Kazakhfilm film studio He studied at the directing faculty of VGIK In 1987 he graduated from the Film studies Faculty of VGIK workshop of A Plakhov Since 1988 director of the Kazakhfilm film studio Author of a number of articles on the theory of cinema published in magazines New Film Blue Phantom and others In 20042006 he was the editorinchief of Kinoman magazine His first two features Kairat also shot in black and white and Cardiogram which premiered at the 52nd edition of the Venice Film Festival winning the CICTUNESCO Prize Killer a crime story inspired by Tolstoys The Forged Coupon screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize Un Certain Regard Jol Omirbaevs subsequent film was a return to autobiography a poetic story of a filmmaker in the vein of 8 12 starring Tajik filmmaker Djamshed Usmonov Shuga and Student were departures for Omirbaev both based on literary works respectively Tolstoys Anna Karenina and Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment Student competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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