Rustem Zharaskanovich Abdrashov (Kazakh: Рүстем Жарасқанұлы Әбдірашев; 2 February 1970; Alma-Ata) is a Kazakh film director, screenwriter, art director and actor. He was born in 1970 in Alma-Ata in the family of the famous Kazakh poet Zharaskan Abdrashev. Mother, Nazigul Nurgalievna Mergenbayeva is a philologist, teacher, teacher of the Kazakh language. In 2004, the year "Rebirth Island" was released, the director's first full—length feature film based on the poetry of Zharaskan Abdrashev, which received international recognition and was awarded various prizes at film festivals around the world.
Rebirth Island
(Screenplay)
Kazakh Khanate: The Golden Throne
(Director)
Patchwork Quilt
(Director)
The Sky of My Childhood
(Screenplay)
Astana, I Love You
(Director)
Fiery River
(Screenplay)
Iron Mountain
(Screenplay)
Breaking The Vicious Circle
(Screenplay)
Kazakh Khanate: Diamond Sword
(Director)
Kazakh Khanate: Diamond Sword
(Screenplay)
Kazakh Khanate: The Golden Throne
(Screenplay)
The Wild East
(Production Design)
The Biography of a Young Accordian Player
(Production Design)
The Dove's Bell-ringer
(Production Design)
The Fall of Otrar
(Assistant Production Design)
Lovers of December
(Decorator)
The Running Target
(Production Design)
Rebirth Island
(Director)
The Sky of My Childhood
(Director)
Iron Mountain
(Director)
Fiery River
(Director)
The Gift to Stalin
(Director)
Breaking The Vicious Circle
(Director)