Zhardem Ismailovich Baytenov Born on March 27, 1932, in Alma-Ata. Soviet film director. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the S. M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1959), while working as a loader and worker at the Alma-Ata Film Studio. In 1959–1960, he worked as an illustrator for the newspaper Lenishil Zhas (Lenin’s Shift). In 1966, he graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK (workshop of S. Gerasimov and... see more