Kokeev Ilike
Kokeiev Ilike
Film director. Honored Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1969). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1943. Born on October 20, 1916, in the village of Akbeshim, Chuy region, in a peasant family. He lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his grandfather, and from 1928— in the Tokmak orphanage. From 1930 to 1933, he studied at the Frunze Pedagogical College. He then worked for two years as a literary associate at the republican newspaper "Kyzyl Kyrgyzstan" (now "Sovettik Kyrgyzstan").
In 1935, I. Kokeiev entered the Kyrgyz National Studio of Actors at the Lunacharsky GITIS in Moscow. A year later, he transferred to the directing faculty, where he studied under the outstanding master of the stage Boris Evgenievich Zakhava. After graduating in 1941, he became the director of the Kyrgyz Drama Theater and the chief director of the Naryn Drama Theater. From 1942 to 1946, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. From 1946 to 1949, he again served as the chief director and director of the Naryn Drama Theater. He staged "The Second Brigade" by A. Osmonov, "Twenty Years Later" by M. Svetlov, "Black Cloud" by K. Eshmambetov, "The Dowry" by A. Ostrovsky, and "The Marriage" by N. Gogol.
From 1949 to 1952, I. Kokeiev was the director of the Kyrgyz Drama Theater, and from 1952 to 1958, he was the chief editor of artistic broadcasting at the Main Directorate for Radio Broadcasting and Radioification of the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz SSR.
In 1958, he moved to the Frunze Film Studio as the senior editor of the script department. After an internship at the M. Gorky Film Studio in 1960, he participated as the second director in the creation of the film "The Pass" (1961, directed by A. Sakharov).
From 1961, I. Kokeiev began independent creative work in documentary and popular science cinema. He shot the documentaries "New Frontiers," "It Depends on Us" (both in 1961), films "River of Happiness" (1962), "Step Aside, Rocks" (1962), "Mountain Pearl" (1963), "In the Snows of Alai" (1964). The latter film received the 2nd prize and a diploma for best directorial work at the review-competition of filmmakers of Central Asia and Kazakhstan in Almaty in 1965. It marked a sharp turn in the director's work towards figurative journalism.
Since 1965, while serving as the deputy director of the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio for the production of popular science and documentary films, I. Kokeiev did not abandon directing. He released the documentary films "Under a Reliable Roof," "We Are Climbers," "This is the Sea" (all in 1965).
From 1968 to 1971, I. Kokeiev, while being the director of the studio, interrupted his creative activity. He returned to it in 1972 and filmed the documentaries and popular science films "Light of Maili-Say," "In the Mountains of Kyrgyzstan" (both in 1972), "This Land is Kyrgyzstan" (1973), "Pearl Alai" (1973, prize at the IV All-Union Festival of Agricultural Films in 1974, bronze medal at the VDNH of the USSR in 1973), "Hello, Kyrgyzstan," "Mentor" (both in 1974), "Breeding Sheep Farming in Kyrgyzstan" (1975, prize at the VI All-Union Festival of Agricultural Films in 1976, bronze medal at the VDNH in 1975), "Brothers Sarykovs" (1975), "Renewed Land," "Scientific and Technical Propaganda, Information, and Advertising in the Service of Agriculture" (both in 1976), "Good Sprouts," "Safe Repair of Distribution Electric Networks" (both in 1977), "Resort in the City" (1979).
Awards — Medal "For Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941—1945." Honorary Certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1959). Badge "Excellence in Cinematography of the USSR" (1965). "For Diligent Work. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin" (1970).
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1962.
WORKS ON THE DIRECTOR'S CREATIVITY
Aitmatov Ch. In the Abyss of Life.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," November 20, 1965.
Ashimov K. The Birth of Kyrgyz Cinema. Frunze, "Ilim," 1969, p. 54.
Ashimov K. The Screen of Kyrgyzstan Tells. Moscow, Bureau for the Propagation of Soviet Cinematic Art, 1976, p. 15.
Velokon L. Veteran of Kyrgyz Cinema.— "Evening Frunze," December 11, 1976.
