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Akan Satayev
Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Kazakhstan)
Akan Kargambaevich Satayev (Kazakh: Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев; born December 23, 1971; Karaganda) is a Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Honored Worker of Kaz…
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Akan Kargambaevich Satayev (Kazakh: Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев; born December 23, 1971; Karaganda) is a Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Akan was born to a family of actors, both his parents were recognized as People's Artistes of the Kazakh SSR and performed leading roles at Karaganda Drama Theater where he spent a lot of time. That theater became his first drama school, and in 1994 Akan graduated from Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Dept of Cinema and Television. While at the university, he played student Azat, the main character in Allazhar, a movie by Kaldybay Abenov about tragic events in Alma-Ata in December 1986. After graduation, Akan took part in various feature films and went into directing and producing advertising clips. Sataifilm, the company he founded in 2003, presented Racketeer, a crime drama and his debut movie, in 2007. In 2016 Akan founded Astana Film Fund to support young Kazakhstani directors and low-budget indie productions. In the same year he shot 2 feature-length movies - “Districts”, a teenage crime drama set in the USSR and The Road to Mother, a period drama about Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front (World War II) and post-war years in Kazakhstan. Mr. Satayev led Kazakhfilm, the largest movie studio in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2022.
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2025
Racketeer III: New Times
Movie Director
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2024
Änel
Movie Director
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2024
Моя половина
Movie Director
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2023
Teach Me How to Live
Movie
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2022
Dawn of the Great Steppe
Movie Producer
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2022
The Assault
Movie Producer
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2021
Boxer
Movie Director
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2020
A Dark, Dark Man
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Holidays Offline 2
Movie Producer
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2019
The Legend of Tomiris
Movie Producer
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2019
Dissolve
Movie Producer
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2019
Holidays Offline
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
The Leader's Way. Astana
Movie Director
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2018
Businessmen
Movie
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2018
The Gentle Indifference of the World
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Alone
Movie Producer
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2016
Districts
Movie Producer
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2016
Hacker
Movie Producer
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2016
The Road to Mother
Movie Producer
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2015
Racketeer 2
Movie Producer
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2014
Kara Shanyrak
TV show Producer
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2013
Bauyrzhan Momyshuly
TV show Director
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2013
Against All Odds
TV show Producer
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2012
Debt
TV show Producer
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2012
Live Broadcast
TV show Producer
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2012
Girlfriends
TV show Producer
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2012
Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe
Movie Producer
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2011
Bolashak
TV show Producer
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2011
The Liquidator
Movie Producer
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2010
My Darling
TV show Producer
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2009
Strayed
Movie Director
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2009
Brothers
TV show Director
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2009
Brothers
TV show Creator
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2007
Racketeer
Movie Producer
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1996
Allazhar
Movie Azat
- 1994
