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Kyrgyzstan

Filmmaker · Kyrgyzstan

Tolomush Okeev

Died in 2001

Tolomush Okeev was born in 1935 in a village on the shore of Issyk-Kul, the son of herders. A sound engineer trained in Leningrad, he began in cinema in the crew of the woman director who represents the other line of cinema in that country, then moved on to directing at the advanced courses in Moscow and became the master of his generation. He was the filmmaker most often awarded at the pan-Soviet festivals, five times in all, and died in 2001.

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