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Ermek Karimzhanovich Tursunov (July 20, 1961, Almaty region, USSR) — kazakh writer, film Director and screenwriter.

Biography
In his youth he played for the national team of Kazakhstan in mini-football.

He graduated from the faculty of journalism of KazNU. Al-Farabi (former KSU); then, scriptwriting and film history faculty of VGIK

Directing career began with the production of the film "the Bride" (Kazakh: Kelin), about the life of primitive society. Critics noted the similarity of style of this painting with the famous film "the Legend about Narayama" directed by Sehei since the beginning. The film was selected by the American film Academy and entered the short list of nine contenders for the Oscar in the category Best film in a foreign language

In October 2012, the following film was released by the Director — "the Old man" (Kazakh: Shal), which was based on the story of the famous american writer Ernest Hemingway "the Old man and the sea".


 * At the XIII festival "Choice of the year" in Almaty "Shal" was recognized as "Film of the year". In 2012, the film was awarded the national prize of Kazakhstan "Kulager" as the best film of the year. In 2013 at the festival "Kinoshok" the film was awarded the Grand Prix.  In 2014, the film was nominated for the award "Nika" for the best film of the CIS and Baltic countries.

In March 2014, the family Comedy of Ermek Tursunov "Kempir" was released, which was called the Kazakh version of the film "Love and pigeons".

In January 2015, the premiere of the film "Kenzhe", the final part of the trilogy ("Kelin", "Shal", "Kenzhe").

In September 2015 at the Toronto film festival was presented the film "the Harvest" ("Tramp"), directed by his script, written in his student years. The picture of a lone hunter who goes against the Soviet regime, refuses to go to the front to fight with the Germans, while faced with an unexpected reaction of the tribesmen. The film was nominated for the "Oscar" from Kazakhstan for 2015, was nominated for "Asian Oscar" (Asia Pacific Screen Awards[en]) in the category "Achievements in the field of directing." At the 19th dark nights festival in Tallinn, the film was awarded the NETPAC prize.

In February 2018, Yermek Tursunov was elected Chairman of the Board of the Union of cinematographers of Kazakhstan.

Books

 * December 24, in 2009 — the presentation of the novel "Mamluk", in which Ermek Tursunov told about the life of the famous commander Beybars, Sultan of Egypt and Syria from the bakhrit dynasty. July 12, 2010 — the book "Seven days of may"was released. Ermek Tursunov wrote it together with the police Kurmanbek Artykbayev, in 2011 the book was filmed the same film. December 8, 2016 — with the support of the private Foundation Dosym Satpayev, the presentation of the book "the little Things of life" in the book 7 sections. In the genre of oral storytelling. 2017 book of the year award by L'officiel Awards 2017.  On December 15, 2017, with the support of the private Foundation Dosym Satpayev, another book "Lived-were"was published.