
Vladimir Tyulkin
Directing
Biography
Vladimir Viktorovich Tyulkin (Russian: Владимир Викторович Тюлькин; born 12 February 1955; Semipalatinsk) is a Kazakh documentary filmmaker. Vladimir Tyulkin studied cinematography at the Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in St. Petersburg, Russia, before taking an advanced course in directing at Mosfilm. From 1987 to 1990 he headed the documentary department of Kazakh Film. Vladimir worked as a director on various national TV channels and directed 500 episodes of the TV series Crossroads for Phabar, the Central Kazakh TV Channel. He is currently a producer for 'Kazakh TV' (owned by Khabar Media Holding Company) and a lecturer at the Cinematography and Television Academy of Turan University of Almaty. His filmography includes Lord of the Flies (1990), About Love (2005) and The Cross Experiment with Taras Popov (1995), which screened in over 30 countries and won numerous international awards. awards, including the grand prize at the Amsterdam International Film Festival. In 2004, Vladimir won Best Russian Documentary Series for his nine-part series Tattoo Under Heaven. In 2010, he directed Not about Dogs. His works have been presented and awarded at international festivals, notably in Nion (1991), Leipzig (1995), London (2005) and Oberhausen (2011).
Known For
A family saga about ordinary residents of Alma-Ata in a difficult period of the 90s. Family stories echo the history of the country. The modest life of yesterday's state employees and luxury apartments of new Russians and Kazakhs. How to get used to a new life without losing humanity?
Crossroad

This documentary tells via the testimonies of people who knew him (like Simone Moro, his companion during his last ascent), the life, the mountaineering exploits and the very tolerant character of Anatoli Boukreev. This famous mountaineer has made more than twenty-one ascents on mountains of 8,000 m altitude, without using supplemental oxygen, and has reached the summit of Everest four times. In 1996 he saved the lives of many climbers in a group led by Scott Fischer during their attempt on Everest. The documentary is based on footage shot during his tragic last ascent of Annapurna in Nepal in 1997.
Unconquerable Summit

The leader of a gang of notorious criminals in Almaty, Kazakhstan defends himself in court, is sentenced to ten years in prison, organizes the country's first prison cooperative, and, after his release, becomes arm wrestling champion of the USSR.
Champion Number One
The harsh documentary "Doomed to Survive" about people with AIDS. The authors of the film teach the sisters to shoot with a video camera and they shoot their girlfriends And the audience learns about the problems of HIV-infected people from the inside. Being carried away by the filming, the girls turn the camera on the author of the film and ask him their questions...
Doomed to Survive
The spirit of the time as seen in a look at Chinvanin and his imprisonment, with interviews, observations and acrobatic elements.
I Will Advocate Myself
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Ambivalence
The film is about the duality of human nature. There is "divine" and "diabolical" in every person, good and bad, but sometimes it is so difficult to distinguish one from the other.
Bomb
A film about the outstanding Sufi of the East Khoja Ahmed Yassaui. People from all over the Muslim world come to his mausoleum in Turkestan, he became the spiritual capital of the country. It is thanks to his fame that a provincial town in the south of Kazakhstan was transformed into a regional center. Yassaui, striving for the Ideal, tirelessly outlived the Vices in himself. His whole life was a struggle, first of all, with himself ...
Turkestan: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
A 1993 Russian language documentary directed by Vladimir Tyulkin, starring Rasha Adan.
Rem
A 2002 Russian language documentary directed by Vladimir Tyulkin.
Little Corner
There are three characters in the film. Classics of science and culture of Kazakhstan. Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961), Kanysh Satpayev (1899-1964), Alkey Margulan (1904-1985). They have a difficult fate. During the years of repression, they were persecuted by the authorities for studying the Kazakh folk epic, but they did not lose their humanity. They were friends and helped each other.
Three Comrades: Auezov / Satpayev / Margulan
The film is based on the fate of the writer Ivan Shukhov (1906-1977). This talented man lived a difficult, long life. The heyday of his talent came during the tragic times of the cult of Stalin's personality, when few of the creative intelligentsia were not injured. The picture is based on the thoughts of people who knew the writer intimately.
Barefoot in the Snow
The story is about two elderly women huddled in a two-room apartment with sixty dogs.
Pathetic Symphony

A harrowing look at a boys' prison in Kazakhstan. Excerpts of this video were aired on a "60 Minutes" segment in 1997
Experiment of the Cross
Nina Perebeeva is the owner of the only private animal shelter in Kazakhstan. Together with her mother, she keeps about 70 dogs. While Nina Vasilyevna spends her tiny pension on food and medicines for her numerous pets, a small truck of skinners is prowling around the city in search of another victim. They grab everyone: mongrels, domestic dogs and even cats, all will do, you can benefit from all of them. Someone can be given to a Korean restaurant, someone for fur, and a couple of unfortunate mongrels can be given to Nina Vasilyevna, she will give at least the last money for them.
Little Nina
This documentary is dedicated to Nina Perebeyeva, a woman who operates the only private dog shelter in Kazakhstan under deplorable conditions. Her compassion is a sharp contrast to the day-to-day activities of Vova, a vicious dog catcher and a drunkard who lives in the same town.
Not About Dogs
The film is about how a blind man goes from wintering to the village. On the way, he remembers the most significant episodes from his life. The road to the village becomes an allegory of a person's wandering in search of a goal. The simple values of life are laid bare before us…
13 Kilometers
A 1993 Russian language short film written and directed by Vladimir Tyulkin, starring Ivan Makhlin, Aleksey Katsovitch and Elena Shemyakina.
Casual Guest
Vladimir Tyulkin’s About Love – an extraordinary film about Nina Perebeyeva, a woman who cares for seventy abandoned dogs in her one bedroom apartment.
About Love

An old man bases his livelihood on a very bizarre form of recyling, breeding maggots in his yard, which he uses to feed his animals. This model of self-subsistence serves as his vision of a perfect state. Experimental documentary made during the collapse of the Soviet Union.