Sodanbek Dzhaly Dzholdoshbekovich
Film director. Born on July 12, 1948, in the city of Naryn in a family of a civil servant. After finishing eight grades in 1963, he entered the Frunze Art College. In 1966, he was drafted into the Soviet Army from the third year. While serving in the Military-Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin in Moscow, he became interested in amateur filmmaking, completed evening school, and in 1968, he enrolled in the directing department of VGIK. He studied in the workshop of Professor Alexander Borisovich Stolper.
In 1971, during his production internship at the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio, D. Sodanbek was appointed as an assistant director in the group of the film "Street" directed by G. Bazarov. Since 1972, the young director began independent work at the film studio. He made a one-part documentary film about the daily life of miners in the south of the republic — "Gold of Kyzyl-Kiya" (1972) and a short fiction film "Burma" (1973) based on the script by screenwriter K. Omurkulov — his diploma work.
From 1974 to 1977, D. Sodanbek shot six documentary films: "Morning Mubarek," "Origins," "Family," "Milestones of the 10th Five-Year Plan," "Hello, Tajikistan," and "From the Darkness of Centuries." In 1978, he made a significant step toward mastery with the film "The Process," which raises complex moral issues.
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1978.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
Ten years without debuts.— "Komsomolskaya Pravda," January 11, 1977.