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Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Russian: Тимур Нуруахитович Бекмамбетов, pronounced [tʲɪˈmur nʊrʊɐˈxʲitəvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪkmɐmˈbʲetəf]; Kazakh: Темір Нұрбақытұлы Бекмамбетoв, romanized: Temır Nūrbaqytūly Bekmambetov; born 25 June 1961) is a Russian-Kazakh film director ...
Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian film director known for vampire franchise Night Watch and Day Watch. He has also worked in Hollywood, directing Wanted, 9, and Ben-Hur, and producing War of the Worlds and Resurrected.
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May 21, 2021 · The director of Profile, a Screenlife thriller about a journalist infiltrating a terrorist group, talks about his approach to the format, his future projects and his sci-fi movie with Ice Cube. He also reveals his desire to explore different cultures and genres in Screenlife.
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Learn about the life and career of Timur Bekmambetov, a Kazakh-Russian film director known for Night Watch, Day Watch and Wanted. Find out his awards, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
- June 25, 1961
- V-2. Escape from Hell’ (2021) The film is based on a true story of Mikhail Devyatayev, a Soviet fighter pilot who was taken as a POW in the summer of 1944 and sent first to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then to another one on the Island of Usedom, somewhere in the Baltic Sea.
- Profile’ (2018) A freelance female journalist goes undercover as a Muslim bride hoping to expose a recruiter for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
- Wanted’ (2008) Timur Bekmambetov proved his worth as a very visual director by turning a plain comic book story into a pretty realistic tale of what happens to a person of no consequence (portrayed by James McAvoy) when he meets a woman with bright blue eyes and a killer instinct (Angelina Jolie).
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ (2012) American writer Seth Grahame-Smith took the story of one family, reeling under the onslaught of evil spirits, to the next level when, years later, the matured protagonist decides to dedicate his entire life to the fight against true evil.
May 15, 2021 · Scott Simon speaks with director Timur Bekmambetov about Profile, a movie set on a computer screen that follows a journalist as she investigates ISIS online.
Aug 17, 2018 · A few years ago filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, one of Russia’s top grossing directors of all time, completely shifted his perspective on the language of movies.
