Zhardem Baytenov
Directing
Biography
Zhardem Ismailovich Baytenov Born on March 27, 1932, in Alma-Ata. Soviet film director. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the S. M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1959), while working as a loader and worker at the Alma-Ata Film Studio. In 1959–1960, he worked as an illustrator for the newspaper Lenishil Zhas (Lenin’s Shift). In 1966, he graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK (workshop of S. Gerasimov and T. Makarova). Since 1966, he worked as a director at the Kazakhfilm Studio. He made several documentary films, including We’ll Meet in Mangyshlak (1964), Architecture of Kazakhstan (1975), Theatre and Time (1976), The Way of the Theatre (1977), and Aspiration to the Future (1977). He was also engaged in film dubbing.
Known For
A historical-revolutionary film based on real events in the small Kazakh settlement of Ridder, where news of the revolution in Petrograd arrives. A strike breaks out at the mines owned by a British joint-stock company.
In Those Days
A fascinating journey through the native land of a schoolboy Ermek, who went to visit his uncle during the summer holidays.
B For Singing
A group of schoolchildren, having decided to congratulate their mothers on the 8th of March, go to the mountains for snowdrops. Various adventures await them on the way, they have to overcome many difficulties. But despite this, the guys come home with flowers.
Snowdrops
About a geology student who came to Mangyshlak Region for field practice, his introduction to work and the team, and his first life challenges.