Director

Timur Bekmambetov

Production

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Active

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TMDB popularity

2.3

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Directed movies: 11Directed series: 0All crew credits: 68

TMDB ID: 23430

IMDb ID: nm0067457

Known for: Production

Born: June 25, 1961

Age: 64

Place of birth: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1987 - 2026

Years active: 40

Average TMDB rating: 6.01

Wikidata: Q344854

Also known as

Timur Bekmambetov • Timur Bekmambetow • Тимур Бекмамбетов • Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov

Frequent jobs

Director (10)Production Director (1)Producer (47)Executive Producer (5)General Manager (2)Production Design (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Russian: Тимур Нуруахитович Бекмамбетов, pronounced [tʲɪˈmur nʊrʊɐˈxʲitəvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪkmɐmˈbʲetəf]; Kazakh: Темір Нұрбақытұлы Бекмамбетoв, romanized: Temır Nūrbaqytūly Bekmambetov; born 25 June 1961) is a Kazakh-born Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004) and the action thriller Wanted (2008), as well as for the pioneering screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018) and Profile (2018). According to Fast Company, he founded Baselevs, a production company that earned a spot among the 2021 World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timur Bekmambetov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.