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Akhtem Seitablaiev

Akhtem Seitablaiev

Director · Born 1972-12-11 · Yangiyul, USSR (Uzbekistan)

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Biography

Crimean Tatar filmmaker. Akhtem Shevketovych Seitablayev, born 11 December 1972, is a Ukrainian actor, screenwriter and film director of the Crimean Tatars origin. He is the director of several high-profile films, including Haytarma in 2013 and Another's Prayer in 2017. He has expressed opposition to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and his films about the fate of several prominent Crimean Tatars have been praised throughout the former Soviet Union but criticized by hardline Russian nationalists. Seitablaiev was born in 1972 in Yangiyo‘l, then part of the Uzbek SSR. During the Stalinist period, his parents were deported by the Soviet authorities to Uzbekistan in the Sürgün since Crimean Tatars were one of the several ethnic groups to experience universal exile in the Stalin era. He attended school in Uzbekistan and remained in there with his family until they moved back to Crimea during the Perestroika era in 1989, where he began his film career in 1992 after graduating from the Crimean Cultural Enlightenment School. From 1992 to 2004 he worked at the Simferopol State Crimean Tatar Theater, where he directed several plays including works of Alexander Pushkin. In…

Directed

  1. The Rising Hawk (2019) — Director
  2. Cyborgs (2017) — Director
  3. Haytarma (2013) — Director
  4. Myrnyi-21 (2023) — Director
  5. Numbers (2020) — Director
  6. Foreign Prayer (2017) — Director
  7. Quartet for two (2007) — Director
  8. GUR: Code "Sikora" (2026) — Director
  9. 8 Countries 8 Directors & Sinan (2011) — Director
  10. Backstreet Champions (2012) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Pulse (2021) — doctor
  2. Homeward (2019) — Mustafa, father
  3. Haytarma (2013) — Amet-khan Sultan
  4. Mamay (2003) — Tatar warrior
  5. Foreign Prayer (2017)
  6. Another Franko (2024) — Andrii Hryshchuk
  7. The Daughter (2024) — Roman
  8. Money Quest (2021) — Doctor
  9. The Fight Rules (2017) — Man in Black
  10. We Are Here. We Are Close (2021) — Oleksii
  11. Self-Return to Crimea (2021) — Self
  12. The Last Day of Youth (2021)
  13. Oh Mom! (2026)
  14. Tatar Triptych (2004) — Istanbul sokhty / Rustem
  15. I'm with You (2016)
  16. Flash (2020) — self
  17. Central Hospital (2016) — Рустам Агаларов, хирург
  18. Dancing with the Stars (2006) — Self – Contestant
  19. Wind from the East (2021) — Self
  20. Ukrainian Cinema. The Rise (2022) — Self (the expert)
  21. Wings (2023) — God
  22. GUR: Code "Sikora" (2026) — Maksym
  23. Guard (2015) — Татарин
  24. На линии жизни (2016) — Сергей Задорожный, хирург