Zhusubaliev Kubat
Screenwriter. Born on October 30, 1941, in the village of Kerdegey, Alay District, Osh Region of the Kyrgyz SSR, in a teacher's family. After graduating from high school in 1957, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics faculty of the Osh Pedagogical Institute, but left after a year and became a student in the journalism department of the philological faculty of Kyrgyz State University. After graduation, he worked as a teacher of the Kyrgyz language and literature at the eight-year school "Kyrgyzstan" in Alay District from 1963 to 1964, and then from 1964 to 1965 as a literary employee for the Osh regional newspaper "Lenin yolu." He studied at the Higher Scriptwriting Courses in Moscow from 1965 to 1967. Since 1968, he has been an editor at the "Kyrgyztelefilm" studio.
In 1967, a collection of short stories and the novella "The Sun Has Not Finished Its Self-Portrait" by K. Zhusubaliev was published in the Kyrgyz language by the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan." The latter was translated into Russian and published in the magazine "Literary Kyrgyzstan" in 1974.
In cinema, K. Zhusubaliev is known as the screenwriter of the documentary television films "Where Swans Arrive" (1968), "Hello, Jailoo" (1977, co-authored with V. Savchuk), "Kumys" (1978), "Yakis Are Born on Snow" (1979), and the essays "The Bridges of Duyshen" (1972, awarded the "Golden Dragon" at the Krakow International Festival in 1973), "The Field of Kulsary" (1972), and the unique, humor-infused short film "Gift" (1973, directed by E. Orozbaev).
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1975.
WORKS ON THE CREATIVITY OF THE SCREENWRITER
Barshay A. "The Bridges of Duyshen."— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," 1973, June 6.
Lipkoye A. Formation.— Collection "Multicolored Screen TV." Moscow, "Art," 1977, pp. 122—123.
Omurkulov K. Formation.— "Literary Kyrgyzstan," 1975, No. 4, p. 99.
