Rakhmatulin Zhakypbek

Rakhmatulin Zhakypbek

Film director. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1966. Born on September 16, 1935, in the village of Dzhanay-Alysh, Kemin district, in a peasant family. After graduating from high school in 1952, he enrolled in the acting department of GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharsky in Moscow. From August 1957 to May 1958, he worked as an actor at the Kyrgyz State Drama Theater, then participated as an assistant director in the filming of the movie "Far in the Mountains" for three months. From September 1958 to August 1959, he studied at the directing department of VGIK. He returned in August 1959 to the Frunze Film Studio, and after four months, he became a director at the Frunze Television Studio. For five years, he filmed documentary essays "Where the Sky Begins" (1963), "Narysh Lights the Lights" (1964), "Winged Surgeon" (1966), and film concerts (9 parts). In May 1966, Rakhmatulin became a student of the two-year Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors in Moscow.

Rakhmatulin began independent work at the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio in 1968. Initially, he was the second director on the film "Shot at the Karash Pass" (1969) by B. Shamshiev, but later switched to documentary and popular science cinema. Over the past decade, Rakhmatulin has filmed many issues of the newsreel "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," popular science essays, and documentaries: "Kyrgyzstan" (1970), "Rhythms of Kyrgyzstan," "Unforgettable Days" (both in 1971), "Designers," "Kulsary Field" (both in 1972), "You Are Walking Through Life," "This is Issyk-Kul" (both in 1973), "High Award of the Motherland," "No Discounts for Age," "Chronicle of the Toktogul Hydroelectric Station" (all in 1974), "Chronicle of Harsh Years" (1975), "Issyk-Kul Today, and Tomorrow?" (1975), "Days of Soviet Literature in Kyrgyzstan" (1975), "Kyrgyz People - BAM" (1976), "Chairman" (1976), "Sayapker" (1976), "Kursay is Being Built" (1978), "Attention - Experiment" (1978), "Daughters of Bagda Kurbanova" (1978), "Kurdzhai" (1978), "Support," "Profession - Worker" (both in 1979). The director also prepared two issues of the satirical magazine "Korogoch" (No. 13 and No. 14) in 1977.

Despite the variety of themes and genres, all these films are characterized by the director's keen interest in the facts and pressing issues of contemporary labor activity, morality, and everyday life. "No Discounts for Age" is a film that points to the roots of juvenile delinquency. In the film "You Are Walking Through Life," the selection of facts reveals the author's rejection of spiritual infantilism regarding marriage, family, and love. The film "This is Issyk-Kul" is permeated with sincere concern for the future of the nature of the Pre-Issyk-Kul region, its animal and plant life.

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1975.

WORKS ON THE DIRECTOR'S CREATIVITY

Belokon L. Heroism, — "Evening Frunze," 1975, November 29.
Bokonbaev S. Two Films on One Theme. — "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," 1974, October 15.
Lyndina E. Screen on the Horizons of Life. — "Art of Cinema," 1974, No. 7, pp. 71—73.
Oblasova G. About Romantics and Realists. — "Evening Frunze," 1976, June 21.
Khayrullina F. Echo of Harsh Years. — "Lenin's Path," 1975, November 29.