Makil Kulanbayev
Known For & Full Filmography21 Titles
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About a group of schoolchildren from a Kazakh aul who swore to one another that they would win the inter-collective farm sports competition.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Ryskul
A tiny Kyrgyz aul in the mountains is slated for demolition, and its people must move to a collective farm. Young shepherd Kanat sets out for the city to study, but after being deceived, he chooses to stay, realizing he must first learn the art of living among people. The village elders, guided by timeless moral values, shape the destinies of the characters, rooted in a deep sense of belonging and communal spirit.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The boy Nurdin spent his summer holidays in the mountains with his grandfather, a herdsman. He learned to ride a horse, took part in horse races, showed courage by going with local children to a cave to get mumiyo to cure a sick comrade.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A biographical film about the life of Gani Muratbaev, the founder of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR .
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When the herdsman's son was born, the Great Ruler of the underworld, Erlik Khan, predicted to the newborn that he, having reached the age of seventeen, would be sacrificed to atone for human pride. But Mohammed — that's what his father called him — grew up kind and brave. The young man managed to force the Lord of Darkness to change his destiny.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In order to protect huge areas of arable land and pastures from periodic flooding, a young scientist Meder Alymkulov is exploring the possibility of erecting a natural dam in the mountains using a directional explosion method in laboratory conditions. However, only a test explosion in natural conditions can confirm or refute laboratory results. Meder takes responsibility for organizing the explosion and begins to prepare the tests...
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Idris
The writer Bektas-agha, arriving in his native village, remembers his childhood: his mother died early, his careless father, who married the beautiful Kulimbala, the teacher Sagatbai. It was a time of collectivization. Bai and his henchmen, playing on the feelings of people expecting hunger, persuaded the collective farmers to barytma — stealing the herd from the neighbors. The members of the cell offered to punish all the perpetrators, but they made up the majority of the residents of the village. The teacher convinced that it is impossible to punish the people for their darkness, it is necessary to find the instigators. So, overcoming their illiteracy, the resistance of the Bay bandits, the collective farmers gradually improved their lives.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film is about the heroic struggle of the Kazakh people against the hordes of bloodthirsty Dzungars and the victory over the Dzungars (XVIII century).
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A single woman, Nesibeli, raises her son and daughter without a husband. Despite the hardships, she remains cheerful, kind, and always ready to help others, which helps her overcome life’s challenges.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The clash of two styles of approaches to people, science, and business is the main conflict of the film. Both central characters - the head of the Altai complex space station and the experiment leader Andrei - are people devoted to science. But Altai is an emotional person, he manages to take care of people, forgive them their small shortcomings and mistakes. Andrey is dry, sometimes even rude to his employees. His absorption in work sometimes borders on selfishness. This gives rise to a clash with Touma, a gifted physicist, but a man of a different plane.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Karacha
The second half of the 16th century, the time of Ivan the Terrible's reign. The story of Yermak Timofeyevich, whose campaign beyond the Urals served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A fascinating journey through the native land of a schoolboy Ermek, who went to visit his uncle during the summer holidays.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Alpamys's Father
A funny story of a six year old Kazakh boy who really wants to start going to school in order to join his seven year old friend.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Седой
Kariev cannot defend his PhD thesis because he does not have the necessary theoretical basis for his idea. Young geologists - Kurov, Mukhamedov and Saraev, who worked in the geological party under the leadership of Kariev, help him, showing the ability to solve major scientific problems.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as old herder
An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Карача
The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Reu
Poetic tale of love between of the hunter Gilgil and his beautiful wife Tintin, told through the Chukchi myth imagery.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Fate did not particularly favor old Myrzagali, and he did not like people. But he cherished his white camel, Ariana, and doted on her. And when he got sick and went to the hospital, Ariana cut the veins of her eyes so that she would accept a local male and no longer look towards the white mountains. After giving birth, Ariana finally went blind. And when the little camel got stronger, she ran with him towards the wind. Myrzagali did not restrain the animals...