Mazhit Begalin

Birthday: 1922-02-22
Deathday: 1978-05-05
Birthplace: Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Gender: Male

MAZHIT BEGALIN

February 22, 1922, Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR — May 5, 1978, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.

Film director, screenwriter, actor. Honored Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR (1977).

He graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK in 1948 (workshop of S.A. Gerasimov and T.F. Makarova).

Since 1950, he worked as a director at the Kazakhfilm studio.

His father was the well-known Kazakh writer Sapargali Iskakovich Begalin (1895–1983).

His wife was actress Lyudmila Ivanova (1925–1995).

His son was actor and stuntman Nartai Begalin (1951–1993).

Credits

Year Title
1975-01-01 Steppe Roar
1969-12-20 The Song of Manshuk
1967-01-01 Moscow is Behind Us
1965-06-07 The Traces Go Beyond the Horizon
1959-01-01 Return to Earth
1958-12-17 His Time Will Come