Akan Satayev

Known for DirectingBorn 1971-12-23 (age 54)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Brothers

Districts

Businessmen

Racketeer III: New Times

The Biography of a Young Accordian Player

Allazhar

Racketeer 2

Racketeer

Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe

Dawn of the Great Steppe

The Legend of Tomiris

The Road to Mother

A Dark, Dark Man

Hacker

Alone

The Assault

The Gentle Indifference of the World

The Liquidator

Dissolve

Strayed

Änel

Моя половина

Teach Me How to Live

Boxer

Holidays Offline 2

Holidays Offline

The Leader's Way. Astana

Kara Shanyrak

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly

Against All Odds

Girlfriends

Live Broadcast

Debt

Bolashak

My Darling

Brothers