Bolotbek Shamshiyev
Bolotbek Schamschijew (Russian Болотбек Толенович Шамшиев; born January 12, 1941 in Frunze, Kyrgyzstan ASSR (now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan ) ) is a Kyrgyz film director and screenwriter.
Life and work
Schamschijew ended in 1965 studied directing at the Film School in Moscow with a degree in the Department of Documentary. Two years earlier, he had already stepped down as artistic actor in appearance, but does not cause notable reactions. His first work, the documentary Manas Chi, was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Festival of rather small Oberhausen, as well as his later work, the shepherd.
In the late 1960s he turned to the movie and directed his first work The shot at the pass (1969 ), followed by other film productions. In 1980 he presented his anti-war film Early cranes, as well as the presence of strips from the capital, a girl came as part of the IX. Festival of Soviet cinema and television film in the GDR.
Outside the film work was the avowed Democrat in November 2002 in the headlines when he was briefly arrested during a protest march against the government of Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev to.