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Directing
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Acting credits
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TMDB ID: 1491737
IMDb ID: nm0440052
Known for: Directing
Born: February 6, 1955
Age: 71
Place of birth: Taldykorgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1989 - 2017
Years active: 29
Wikidata: Q12526258
Also known as
Абай Карпыков • Абай Садвокасович Карпыков • Abai Karpykov
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Abay Sadvokasovich Karpykov (Kazakh: Абай Садвокасович Карпыков; born February 6, 1955, Taldy-Kurgan) is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. He graduated from the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute and the Directing Faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (workshop of Sergei Solovyov). Specialty — director and producer. He produced the first Kazakh "soap operas" — "Crossroads" and "Locust". Of the full-length films, one of the first films was the film "The One who is more Tender" (1996), later he made the film "Farah" (1998). Both films starred the colorful actor Farhat Abdraimov — winner of two Russian film festivals in 1999 for these films.
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