The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 84th most number of Film Directors behind North Macedonia, and Niger.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dinara Asanova (1942 - 1985)
With an HPI of 52.44, Dinara Asanova is the most famous Kirghiz Film Director. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (Russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова; 24 October 1942 – 4 April 1985) was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed female filmmakers of the late Soviet Union. She is best known for her films Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975) and Tough Kids or Boys (Patsany) (1983). Although she was not very well known in the West, Asanova was popular in the USSR. Her career spans over 25 years, ending with her death at the age of 42 due to a heart ailment. Between the years 1969 and 1984, Asanova made ten films. Her films often dealt with the subject of troubled adolescence and incorporated critiques on Soviet society. Asanova rarely had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kirghiz film directors born between 1942 and 1942. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Kirghiz film directors include Dinara Asanova. As of April 2024, 1 new Kirghiz film directors have been added to Pantheon including Dinara Asanova.
