Asanali Ashimov
Birthday: 1937-05-08
Place of Birth: Байкадам, СССР (Казахстан)
Biography: Asanali Ashimov is a legendary Kazakh actor, director, screenwriter, and educator. Born on May 8, 1937, in the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan, he graduated from the Kurmangazy Kazakh State Conservatory in 1961 with a degree in drama acting. Ashimov gained nationwide fame for his iconic roles in Kazakh cinema, including Kyz-Zhibek (1970) and the End of the Ataman series. He also directed several acclaimed films, such as Legendary Chokan (1985) and Wormwood (1986). Over his career, he has been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including the title of People's Artist of the USSR and Kazakhstan's Hero of Labor. A towering figure in Kazakh culture, Ashimov continues to inspire generations through his work in film, theater, and education.
Movies
Purely Kazakh History
At his father's funeral, the boy meets his uncle, who has been in prison for a long time, an unemplo...
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Wolf Trail
After many years spent in a Bangkok prison, an old man returns to his homeland, Kazakhstan. Did he t...
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Trans-Siberian Express
An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanes...
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A Shot or It All Started on Saturday
Based on Kyr Bulychev's Sci-Fi story, a man acquires the ability to throw objects with precision. He...
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Saga of the Love of Genghis Khan's Daughter
The third part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The ...
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The House by the Salt Lake
The film is based on the complex intersections of human destinies during the Patriotic War. The fami...
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Ermak
The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian l...
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Lady Zhibek
Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nat...
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The End of Ataman
A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill...
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My Love Is in the Third Year
The student team arrived to spend their work semester at a virgin land collective farm with the mott...
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Manchurian Variant
In August 1945 Soviet agent Kasym-khan Chadiyarov (Asanali Ashimov) works undercover in Manchuria, i...
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On the Wild Coast of the Irtysh
The builders of the hydroelectric power station face a difficult task: it is necessary to speed up t...
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In One Area
About the secretary of the district committee of the party, Sabyr Bayanov, who at the beginning of h...
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Crossroads
The film tells about the ambulance doctor Galia Ismailova, her worries and joys....
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The Silver Horn of Ala-Tau
After a car accident, Kaisar's driver is deprived of his driver's license for five years. The hero g...
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Worrisome Morning
1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is n...
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Artemisia
Little Ergesh wants to help his sick grandfather buy expensive medicine. To earn the necessary money...
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Turksib
The year is 1929. The construction of a railway connecting Central Asia and Siberia is in full swing...
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Wings of Song
Bai Nurtaza hopes to find in the young poet, ambitious and not indifferent to female beauty, a loyal...
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The Messengers Hurry
The film is about the heroic struggle of the Kazakh people against the hordes of bloodthirsty Dzunga...
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The Old Woman
An old man and his old woman live in a remote Kazakh village. People call the old man Shorty Kairgal...
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The Falls
Asan works as a bulldozer operator on a road construction project. One day, during an explosion, he ...
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Aruah
In the boundless Kazakh steppe, in a house on a hill, old man Agatai lives. His beloved wife died a ...
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Botagoz
A film is based on the novel by a Kazakh writer Sabit Mukanov. It shows Kazakhstan in 1916-1917 and ...
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Song Calls
In the center of the plot of the film is the fate of a young girl Aigul. She works well in the colle...
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Shokan Valikhanov
A television film about a famous scientist, traveler, and educator of the 19th century. About the li...
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