Mukhtar Bakhtygereev

Mukhtar Bakhtygereev remains one of the most searched entertainment personalities associated with Kazakh SSR, USSR, [now Kazakhstan] and modern film culture.

He began working on the stage of the Atyrau Drama Theater. Among the roles performed on this stage: Baymagambet ("Millionaire" by G. Mustafin), Kodar ("Kozы Korpesh — Bayan Sulu" by G. Musrepov), Petruchio ("Asauga — Tusa" by William Shakespeare), Andamas ("Maira" by M. Akinzhanov and K. Kuanishlaev). After graduating from the Almaty Theater School (1956), he performed on the stage of the Kazakh TЮZ, where he played the roles of Akyn ("Karagoz Karindasym" by Z. Zhumakhanov), Asanbay ("Bizdin Gani" by Sh. Kusaynov), Karasai ("Shuga" by B. Mayliya), Kudiar ("Akböpe" by I. Bayzakov), Nuri ("Apenda" by P. Hikmet), Kunanbay ("Zhas Abay"), Osman ("Tau Kyz" by R. Gamzatov), Dervish ("Ai Tutylgan Tyn" by M. Karim), Klavdia ("Hamlet" by W. Shakespeare), Ilyas ("Armanym — Asel" by Ch. Aitmatov), Dogala ("Alua" by M. Auzov, State Prize of Kazakhstan, 1984), and others.