- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- March 19, 1954
- Place of Birth
- Alma-Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Rashid Nugmanov
Rashid Nugmanov (Russian: Рашид Мусаевич Нугманов; born March 19, 1954; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director, dissident, political activist and founder of the Kazakh New Wave cinema movement. Rashid Nugmanov was born into a Muslim Kazakh family on March 19, 1954. After graduating in 1977 from the Architectural Institute in Alma-Ata, Nugmanov enrolled at the prestigious Moscow State Film Institute (VGIK), the world's first institute of cinematography in 1984. His directorial debut, The Needle, premiered in September 1988 at the "Golden Duke" Festival in Odesa, where it won the Un Certain Regard prize. Starring popular Soviet rock musician Viktor Tsoi, it was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the Soviet Union. The film was released in the USSR in February 1989 with 1,000 prints in circulation and became a box office hit viewed by …
Filmography
movieAntarctica Double Crossing
2020 · Writer, Producer, Director
Memento Vivere
movieMemento Vivere
2017 · Editor, Producer
movieThe Story of Kazakh Cinema – Underground of Kazakhfilm
2015 · Self
movieThe Needle Remix
2010 · , Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Director, Writer
movieThe Wild East
1993 · The Godfather (Masked), Writer, Producer, Production Design, Director
movieThe Needle
1989 · Director, Production Design
And We Will Save the Love
movieAnd We Will Save the Love
1987 · , Director, Screenplay
movieThe Stray White and the Speckled
1986 · , Assistant Director Trainee
movieYahha
1986 · Production Design, Producer, Director, Writer
Zgga
movieZgga
1977 · , Editor, Producer, Director, Production Design, Screenplay
Balapan
movieBalapan
1975 · , Music Consultant
The Snow Band
movieThe Snow Band
1971 · , Director, Producer, Screenplay, Production Design, Editor
movieBATU: Historical Detective
— · , Producer, Director, Writer