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Nurbek Egen (born December 3, 1975) is a Kyrgyz and Russian film and TV director and screenwriter. His films have won two Young Artist Awards: his short film Sanzhyra as Best Short Foreign Film and his feature film The Wedding Chest as Outstanding International Drama.
Nurbek Egen was born in Osh Oblast, Kirghiz SSR. Having graduated from Physics and Mathematics school, he studied acting at Arts Institute in Bishkek for two years. In 1994 he entered the Faculty of Directing at Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) and studied under the guidance of Vladimir Khotinenko. He graduated from VGIK in 2000. In 2009-2010 he studied Directing at New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, USA.
While studying at VGIK, Egen made his short films One Day Older (1998) and Closed Space (1999). His next short film Sanzhyra has been a part of competition programs of more than 50 international festivals and received the Best Short Foreign Film Award at the Young Artist Awards in Los Angeles, USA.
The Wedding Chest, Egen's feature film about Aydar who came back from Paris to his native ail with his French bride Isabelle, received the Best Foreign Film Award at the Young Artist Awards in Los Angeles, USA, as well as the Audience Award at the Cottbus Film Festival, Germany. FBW (Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden), a German federal authority for evaluating and rating film and media, rated the film with the certification mark Wertvoll (valuable) for its high artistic quality.
Egen's feature film It Doesn't Hurt A Fighter was highly appraised at Russian film festivals of children's films and won a prize for "Best Directing" at the 10th Krasnogorsk Festival of Sports Films in 2012.
In his works, Nurbek Egen repeatedly turns to his native culture and traditions. Modern social and political life of Kyrgyzstan, as well as its background and cultural past, are reflected in his documentary film The Birth of Manas as a presentiment.
Egen's social drama Empty House (2012) brings up one of the most relevant and sensitive issues - emigration, interpenetration and mutual rejection of different cultures, national identity. The film won the Best Feature Film Award at the 10th Shaken's Stars International Film Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Egen is currently engaged in active filmmaking and TV production.- Stunts
- Actor
Usen Khudaybergenov was born on 27 November 1949 in Sary-Budak, Kirgizskaya SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Yaroslav Mudry (1982), Kapkan dlya shakalov (1985) and Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980). He died on 10 April 2005 in Bishkek, Kirgiziya.- Viktor Kim was born on 22 January 1977 in Frunze, Kirgizskaya SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for The Master and Margarita (2023), Povelitel vetra (2023) and Zapasnyy vykhod (2024).
- Mukanbet Toktobaev was born in 1947 in Kirgizskaya SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Sunduk predkov (2005), Unknown Route (2008) and Voskhozhdenie na Fudziyamu (1989). He died on 30 July 2015.
- Svetlana Nazarenko was born on 17 October 1970 in Frunze, Kirgizskaya SSR, USSR. She is an actress, known for Z'olushka (2012), Duety (2021) and Nu-ka, vse vmeste! (2019). She is married to Aleksey Lesnikov.
- Cinematographer
- Actor
- Writer
Nurtai Borbiyev was born on 15 January 1937 in Kirgizskaya SSR, USSR. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Potomok belogo barsa (1985), Mirazhi lyubvi (1987) and Aziat (1991). He died on 8 June 2019.