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Akan Satayev

Akan Satayev

Director · Born 1971-12-23 · Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Kazakhstan)

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Biography

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…

Directed

  1. Hacker (2016) — Director
  2. The Legend of Tomiris (2019) — Director
  3. Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe (2012) — Director
  4. Racketeer (2007) — Director
  5. The Liquidator (2011) — Director
  6. The Road to Mother (2016) — Director
  7. Strayed (2009) — Director
  8. Racketeer 2 (2015) — Director
  9. Businessmen (2018) — Director
  10. Districts (2016) — Director
  11. Alone (2017) — Director
  12. Dawn of the Great Steppe (2022) — Director
  13. Racketeer III: New Times (2025) — Director
  14. The Leader's Way. Astana (2018) — Director
  15. Boxer (2021) — Director
  16. Teach Me How to Live (2023) — Director
  17. Änel (2024) — Director
  18. Моя половина (2024) — Director
  19. Bauyrzhan Momyshuly (2013) — Director
  20. Brothers (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Businessmen (2018)
  2. Allazhar (1996) — Azat
  3. The Biography of a Young Accordian Player (1994)
  4. Teach Me How to Live (2023)