Director,
Writer,
Actor,
Editor,
Producer
Born 1982, USSR (Kazakhstan)
 
 
Adilkhan YERZHANOV
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Адильхан ЕРЖАНОВ
Adilkhan YERZHANOV
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2025 - Smattering (Тургауд) [fiction, 124 mn]
2024 - Cadet (Кадет) [fiction, 123 mn]
2024 - Kazakh scary tales (Казахские страшные сказки) [fiction, full length film]
2024 - Moor (Мавр) [fiction, 83 mn]
2023 - Steppenwolf (Степной волк) [fiction, 102 mn]
2022 - Assault (Штурм) [fiction, 90 mn]
2022 - Herd Immunity (Коллективный иммунитет) [fiction, 94 mn]
2022 - Ademoka’s Education (Обучение Адемоки) [fiction, 90 mn]
2022 - The Return of Zoya (Возвращение Зои) [fiction, short film]
2022 - Goliath (Голиаф) [fiction, 93 mn]
2022 - Frozen (Замерзшие) [fiction, serial, 50 mn]
2020 - Yellow cat (Желтая кошка) [fiction, 90 mn]
2019 - A dark, dark man (Черный, черный человек) [fiction, 130 mn]
2019 - A Dark, Dark Man (Чёрный, чёрный человек) [fiction, 130 mn]
2018 - La Tendre Indifférence du monde (Ласковое безразличие мира) [fiction, 100 mn]
2017 - Night God (Ночной Бог) [fiction, 110 mn]
2016 - The Plague at the Karatas Village (Чума в ауле Каратас) [fiction, 80 mn]
2015 - The Story of Kazakh cinema: Underground of Kazakhfilm (История Казахского кино: Подполье “Казахфильма”) [documentary, 52 mn]
2014 - The Owners (Собственники / Хозяева) [fiction, 100 mn]
 
Writer
2025 - Smattering (Тургауд) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 124 mn]
2024 - Cadet (Кадет) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 123 mn]
2024 - Moor (Мавр) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 83 mn]
2023 - Steppenwolf (Степной волк) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 102 mn]
2022 - Assault (Штурм) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 90 mn]
2022 - Herd Immunity (Коллективный иммунитет) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 94 mn]
2022 - Ademoka’s Education (Обучение Адемоки) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 90 mn]
2022 - Goliath (Голиаф) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 93 mn]
2020 - Yellow cat (Желтая кошка) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 90 mn]
2019 - A Dark, Dark Man (Чёрный, чёрный человек) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 130 mn]
2018 - La Tendre Indifférence du monde (Ласковое безразличие мира) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 100 mn]
2017 - Night God (Ночной Бог) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 110 mn]
2016 - The Plague at the Karatas Village (Чума в ауле Каратас) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 80 mn]
2015 - The Story of Kazakh cinema: Underground of Kazakhfilm (История Казахского кино: Подполье “Казахфильма”) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [documentary, 52 mn]
2014 - The Owners (Собственники / Хозяева) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 100 mn]
 
Actor
2015 - The Story of Kazakh cinema: Underground of Kazakhfilm (История Казахского кино: Подполье “Казахфильма”) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [documentary, 52 mn]
 
Editor
2022 - Ademoka’s Education (Обучение Адемоки) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 90 mn]
2020 - Yellow cat (Желтая кошка) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 90 mn]
2019 - A Dark, Dark Man (Чёрный, чёрный человек) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 130 mn]
2018 - La Tendre Indifférence du monde (Ласковое безразличие мира) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 100 mn]
2017 - Night God (Ночной Бог) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 110 mn]
2016 - The Plague at the Karatas Village (Чума в ауле Каратас) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 80 mn]
2015 - The Story of Kazakh cinema: Underground of Kazakhfilm (История Казахского кино: Подполье “Казахфильма”) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [documentary, 52 mn]
2014 - The Owners (Собственники / Хозяева) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 100 mn]
 
Producer
2024 - Cadet (Кадет) from Adilkhan YERZHANOV [fiction, 123 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Author :
Awards :
Steppenwolf :
First prize, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : BIFFF, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Goliath :
Jury Prize, Reims International Thriller Film Festival, Reims (France), 2023
Assault :
First prize, Reims International Thriller Film Festival, Reims (France), 2022
Biography
Born August 7, 1982 in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Kazakh film director and screenwriter.
In 2009, he graduated from the Faculty of Directing at the National Academy of Arts and in 2011, he shot his first feature film, "The Real Estate Agent."
His third film, "The Owners" (2013), premiered in the official program of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received several awards and was shortlisted for the Asian Film Academy Award.
His next film, "The Plague in the Karatas Aul" (2016), received the Petras Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and established Yerzhanov as one of the leading directors of contemporary Kazakh cinema.
In 2015, he directed the documentary "History of Kazakh Cinema" at the Busan Film Festival.
Noted by critics in France for its formal beauty and its subject matter, his film "The Tender Indifference of the World" (2018) was screened at several major international festivals (Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section, Bergen International Film Festival, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Tokyo International Film Festival 2018, etc.).
Adilkhan Yerzhanov was the subject of a "Focus" at L'Étrange Festival 2018. Honorary member of the APSA Academy. Member of the European Film Academy (EFA).
 
Commentaries
- Berlinale 2026: out of focus? , Birgit BEUMERS, 2026, Kinokultura
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Steppenwolf (Dala qasqyry, Kazakhstan 2023) Andrei ROGATCHEVSKI, 2025, Kinokultura
- Critique Moor [Film de Adikhan Yerzhanov] Marko STOJILJKOVIC, 2024, cineuropa.org
- "Film-nocturne": the nocturnal films by Adilkhan Yerzhanov , Eugénie ZVONKINE, 2023, kinokultura
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov – L’Education d’Ademoka Michaël DELAVAUD, 2023, Culturopoing
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Herd Immunity (Kollektivnyi immunitet, 2022) José ALANIZ, 2023, Kinokultura
- La rébellion par la poésie [A propos du réalisateur Addikhan Yerzhanov] , Eugénie ZVONKINE, 2023, festival-larochelle.org
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov – A dark, dark man Michaël DELAVAUD, 2022, Culturopoing
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov – Assaut Michaël DELAVAUD, 2022, Culturopoing
- Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Assault (Shturm, Kazakhstan 2021) Peter ROLLBERG, 2022, Kinokultura
- Адильхан Ержанов: «Безвольный герой — оксюморон» [Assault (Штурм), 2022, de Adilkhan ERJANOV] Валерия КУДРЯВЦЕВА, 2022, seance.ru
- В борьбу вступает слово: Обучение Адемоки Адильхана ЕРЖАНОВА [L'Education d'Ademoka, 2022, de Adilkhan ERJANOV] Олеся НОВИКОВА, 2022, kinoart.ru
- Говорит по французски : Желтая кошка степной нуар Адильхана ЕРЖАНОВА [Critique du film Le Chat jaune, 2020, de Adilkhan ERJANOV Андрей КАРТАШОВ, 2022, kinoart.ru
- Макиавелли в степях. Голиаф Адильхана Ержанова на российских экранах [Film :Goliath, 2022, de Adilkhan ERJANOV] , Andrey PLAKHOV, 2022, kommersant.ru
- L’Etrange Festival 2022 – 28e édition – Journal de bord 6 [Contient une critique du film ; Immunité collective] Michaël DELAVAUD, 2022, Culturopoing
- В подземельях «Казахфильма» [A propos du film Histoire du cinéma kazakh : Le Sous-sol de "Kazakhfilm", 2015, de Adilkhan ERJANOV] , Adilkhan YERZHANOV, Алексей АЗАРОВ, 2016, Radio Azattyq