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Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Kazakh: Темір Нұрыахытұлы Бекмамбет; Russian: Тиму́р Нуруахи́тович Бекмамбе́тов, Timur Nuruahitovič Bekmambetov; born 25 June 1961) is a Russian and Kazakh film and advertisement director.
Biography
Bekmambetov was born on June 25,1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan). At the age of 19, he moved to Tashkent, then-Soviet Uzbekistan where in 1987 he graduated from the A. N. Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute in Tashkent. After serving in the army, he worked at Ilkhom theater and Uzbekfilm. It was there where he started his career as a movie director, and met Viktor Verzhbitsky, a Tashkent-born actor who became Bekmambetov's closest colleague and played in almost all of the movies directed by him.
Between 1992 and 1997, Bekmambetov was one of the directors of the popular World History advertisements for the Bank Imperial.
In 2004, Bekmambetov directed Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko. The sequel, Day Watch (2006), was likewise directed by Bekmambetov. He also directed the Roger Corman-produced remake of the 1974 film The Arena in 2001, also titled The Arena starring Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. He shows a common soldier's view in the film Escape from Afghanistan (1994) that was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as a direct-to-video production in 2002.
Bekmambetov's Wanted was released on June 27, 2008 in the US. The film, Bekmambetov's Hollywood debut, is based upon a comic-book miniseries of the same name written by Mark Millar. Twilight Watch, the third of the Night Watch series, is expected in 2009.