Timur Suleymenov
Directing
Biography
Timur Suleymenov (Kazakh: Тимур Сулейменов; born 1959; Alma-Ata) is Kazakh film director and screenwriter. In 1982 he graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 1987 he entered the VGIK (workshop of P. Todorovsky).
Known For
Set in contemporary Moscow, this comedy drama from 72-year-old director Pyotr Todorovsky is a remake of Abram Room's controversial silent film Bed and Sofa (1927). Actor Sergei leaves his wife and drops in on friend Kostya, married to Rita. Rita and Sergei pair off after Kostya goes away on a business trip, and when Kostya returns, they become a threesome. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
Retro Threesome
The stranger is John, an American visiting Kazakhstan as part of an exchange programme for "medical expertise". He meets the local people who lead a free and simple life. With his new friends, John will live through a series of adventures. He spends four very strange days with a friend and colleague. Back at his hotel, John hears that his friend has died in mysterious circumstances, but people say he had in fact been dead for several days.
Stranger
An eight year old boy has no mother and misses very much a female presence in his life. When a young nurse comes to take care of his ill father, the boy falls in love with her.