Zhangorozova Aliman
Film actress. People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1967). Born on December 31, 1914, in the village of Sary-Tologoy, Tyup District, Kyrgyz SSR. Completed 5 grades of secondary school. At the age of 20, she entered the Kyrgyz State Drama Theater. From 1934 to 1937, she worked in the collective farm theater organized by her at the decision of the People's Commissariat of Education of the republic in the city of Uzgen. She later performed on the stages of the Issyk-Kul (1937—1943), Naryn (1943—1946), and Przhevalsk (1946—1962) drama theaters. From 1963 to 1972, she worked at the Naryn Musical Drama Theater. From 1972 to 1975, she was an actress at the Kyrgyz State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Academic Drama Theater. Over her 42 years of creative life in the theater, she played more than 160 diverse roles, demonstrating her natural talent, extensive life and stage experience, and true acting mastery.
Sincerity, temperament, and deep knowledge of life distinguish all the roles she created in cinema as well. She successfully acted in various films and with different directors from 1961 to 1975. The audience remembers her performances in the films "The Girl of Tian Shan" by A. Ochkin (mother), "The Sky of Our Childhood" by T. Okeeva (Urum), "Jamila" by I. Poplavskaya (elder mother), "Scarlet Poppies of Issyk-Kul" by B. Shamshiev (Aymzhan), "Bow to the Fire" by T. Okeeva (Mergen's wife), "I Am Tian Shan" (Asel's grandmother), "Fierce" by T. Okeeva (old woman), "Street" by G. Bazarov (old woman Boroshava), "Smile on the Stone" by U. Ibragimov (Alymkan), "Red Apple" by T. Okeeva (old woman), "Once Upon a Time" by M. Ubukeev (Kumar).
Awards — medals "For Labor Valor" (1946, 1970). Order of the "Badge of Honor" (1958). Certificate of the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR (1966). Honorary certificate of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1967).
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1973.
WORKS ON THE ARTISTRY OF THE ACTRESS
Lippe A. The Acting Palette of Aliman.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 30, 1966.
Ashimov K. The Birth of Kyrgyz Cinema. Frunze, "Ilim," 1969, p. 119.
Ashimov K. The Screen of Kyrgyzstan Tells. Moscow, Bureau for the Propagation of Soviet Cinematic Art, 1976, p. 53.
Ibragimova M. The Path of the Actress.— "Evening Frunze," November 2, 1974.
From Amateur Stage to Screen.— "Evening Frunze," December 7, 1976.
Women of Kyrgyzstan
