Akhtem Seitablayev

Quick Facts

Full Name	Akhtem Seitablayev
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 11, 1972(1972-12-11)
Age	52
Birthplace	Yangiyo‘l
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Yangiyo‘l
Horoscope	Aquarius

Akhtem Seitablayev Biography

Akhtem Seitablayev is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on December 11, 1972 in Yangiyo‘l, Yangiyo‘l, Soviet Union. Seitablayev was born in 1972 in Yangiyo‘l, then part of the Uzbek SSR. His parents were deported to Uzbekistan in the Sürgün since Crimean Tatars were one numerous ethnic groups to experience en-mass exile in the Stalin era. He attended school in Uzbekistan and remained in there with his family until they moved back to Crimea during the Perestroika era in 1989, where he began his film career in 1992 after graduating from the Crimean Cultural Enlightenment School.

From 2016 to 2017 he directed Another’s Prayer, based on the real life of Saide Arifova, a kindergarten director who saved over 80 Jewish children during the Holocaust by switching their ethnicity listing and teaching them to imitate Crimean Tatar customs and language to hide them from the Gestapo. Eventually the Nazis suspected she was involved in hiding Jewish children and tortured her, but she refused to betray any names. After the Red Army retook control of Crimea she saved them again by explaining to the NKVD that the children were Jewish, not Crimean Tatar, and hence were allowed to stay in Crimea instead of being deported to the desert. The film debuted on 18 May 2017, the anniversary of the Sürgün. Originally the film was supposed to be filmed in Crimea, but after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 it was decided that the filming would be done in mainland Ukraine and Georgia.

In 2015, Seitablayev’s family and film were featured in an Unreported World documentary about the Russian annexation of Crimea.

Akhtem Seitablayev Net Worth

Akhtem Seitablayev is one of the richest Film Director from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akhtem Seitablayev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Akhtem Seitablayev (Crimean Tatar: Ahtem Şevket oğlu Seytablayev ; born 11 December 1972 in Yangiyo‘l, Uzbek SSR) is a Crimean Tatar actor, screenwriter, and film director based in Ukraine. He is the director of several high-profile films, including Haytarma in 2013 and Another’s Prayer in 2017. He has expressed opposition to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and his films about the fate of several prominent Crimean Tatars have been praised throughout throughout Europe but criticized by the Russian far-right.

From 1992 to 2004 he worked at the Simferopol State Crimean Tatar Theater, where he directed several plays including works of Alexander Pushkin. In 2005 he began working at the Kiev Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left- bank of Dnieper. In 2009 he directed his first film, Quartet for Two. In 2013 he directed the movie Haytarma (English: Return) based on the real life of Amet-khan Sultan, a Crimean Tatar flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who witnessed the Sürgün but managed to avoid deportation due to his father’s Lak ancestry and the intervention of Timofey Khryukin, commander of the 8th Air Army. The film was praised by the Kiev Post as “must-see for history enthusiasts” and criticized by Komsomolskaya Pravda for depicting the NKVD officers doing the deportation as violent while portraying the deported women and children in a much more sympathetic light.

On 29 May 2018, he released a statement in support of Oleg Sentsov, a film director arrested in Russian-controlled Crimea. He is married to actress Ivanna Dyadyur, and has three children. His daughter Nazli is an actress, dancer, and model who also had a role in Haytarma.

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Who is Akhtem Seitablayev Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Akhtem Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Akhtem Seitablayev celebrates birthday on December 11 of every year.

Top Facts about Akhtem Seitablayev

1. Akhtem Seitablayev is a Crimean Tatar actor, screenwriter and film director.
2. He was born on May 17, 1976 in Simferopol, Crimea.
3. Seitablayev has directed several award-winning films including “Haytarma” and “The Rising Hawk”.
4. He received the Order of Merit from the President of Ukraine in 2018.
5. Seitablayev is an advocate for the rights of Crimean Tatars.
6. He was forced to leave Crimea after Russia’s annexation in 2014.
7. Seitablayev founded the Qirim Film Festival to promote Crimean Tatar cinema.
8. He has acted in numerous Ukrainian and Russian films and TV shows.
9. Seitablayev studied at Kyiv National I.Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
10. His film “Haytarma” tells the story of Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944.