Alty Karliev (; January 6, 1909 – December 11, 1973) was a Soviet and Turkmen stage and film actor, director and dramatist. He studied at the Turkmen Drama Studio and the

Baku Theatre College Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world an ...

, graduating from the latter in 1931. After this, he worked as an actor at the

Ashkhabad Drama Theatre Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital city, capital and the largest city of Turkmeni ...

. Karliev's first film appearance was as Kelkhan in the 1939 film ''Soviet Patriots''. Other notable film roles included Nury in ''Dursun'' (1940) and Aldar Kose in ''The Magic Crystal'' (1945). His appearance in ''The Magic Crystal'' gained him a following across the Soviet Union. Karliev did not have any formal training as a director, but learned from Russian and Ukrainian directors. His first directing credit was in 1957, when he worked with

Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov Yevgeni Alekseyevich Ivanov-Barkov (; 4 March 1892 – 18 May 1965) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter who had a significant role in the development of Turkmen cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Filmography * ''Poison'' (1927) * ''Mabul'' (19 ...

on the first color film produced by Turkmenfilm, ''Extraordinary Mission''. His next film was ''Ayna'' (1960). This was followed by ''The Decisive Step'' (1965). His portrait was painted by Ivan Cherinko.

Awards and honors

* Two Stalin Prizes, 2nd class (1941, 1949) * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" *

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significan ...

(1955)

References

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