Zhakiev Beksultan
Film playwright. Honored Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1974). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1974. Born on January 16, 1936, in the village of Bokonbaev in the Ton district of the Kyrgyz SSR to a peasant family. After graduating from high school in 1953, he entered the philological faculty of Kyrgyz State University. From 1958 to 1959, he worked as a teacher of the Kyrgyz language at the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute. From 1960 to 1962, he was a student at the Higher Script Courses in Moscow. From 1963 to 1968, he served as a freelance editor for the studio "Kyrgyzfilm," then until 1972, he was the chief editor of the Main Department of Cinematography and Film Distribution of the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR, and from 1972 to 1975, he was the chief editor of the State Cinema of the Kyrgyz SSR. Since August 1975, he has been the chief editor of the united repertoire editorial board of the Ministry of Culture of the republic.
B. Zhakiev is known as a talented playwright and prose writer. In 1959, his first multi-act play "Fate of the Father" received an award at a republican competition, and in 1960, it premiered at the Kyrgyz State Drama Theater. It has been translated into other languages of the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
In the 1960s and 1970s, stories and novellas ("Storm on the Way," "My Older Brother is Younger than Me," etc.) regularly appeared in the magazine "Ala-Too," and collections of novellas "Storm on the Way" (in Kyrgyz) and "Meeting in the City of Winds" (in Russian) were published by the publishing houses "Kyrgyzstan" and "Mektep."
During this period, his plays "A Thousand Dreams," "Golden Bowl," "Sentence," "Tomorrow is New Year," and "Meeting" had a long life on the stages of theaters in Naryn, Frunze, and Osh. B. Zhakiev translated plays by S. Aleshina "The Ward," B. Brecht "Mother Courage and Her Children," and others into Kyrgyz.
B. Zhakiev is a writer who knows the specifics of cinema well. He has edited dozens of scripts for documentary and feature films, including well-known ones such as "These are Horses" (1965), "The Sky of Our Childhood" (1966) by T. Oksev, "White Mountains" (1964) by M. Ubukeyev, "Shot at the Karash Pass" (1969) by B. Shamsiev. He is the author of the scripts for the films "Muras" ("Heritage," 1969) by T. Okeev and "Tale of Art" (1974) by G. Bazarov.
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1966.
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1962.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
"Mirage" (film script in Kyrgyz).— "Ala-Too," 1970, No. 8, pp. 10—41.
"Kozara" (review in Kyrgyz).— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," January 5, 1963.
Why are films poorly dubbed? (in Kyrgyz).— "Ala-Too," 1974, No. 4, pp. 149—160.
WORKS ON THE CREATIVITY OF THE FILM PLAYWRIGHT
Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2, pp. 413—414.
