Kydyrzhan Kydyraliev

Cinematographer and director, born 1 April 1936 in the Kalinin District of Kyrgyzstan. He was an assistant cameraman at Kyrgyzfilm from 1954 and, after graduating from the VGIK cinematography faculty in 1961, a director of photography. He shot The Sky of Our Childhood, Jamila, Bow to the Fire, The Ferocious One, Ulan and Golden Autumn, and directed Valley of the Ancestors (1989). People's Artist of the Kirghiz SSR (1982).