Akim

Akim (2019)

Аким

A young major named Azamat, accustomed to a comfortable city life, by coincidence, is sent to work as an akim in a remote village.

Date of release
2019-11-07
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Nurtas Adambay

Casting

Interesting facts

Akim is a 2019 Kazakh comedy film. The writer, producer and director of the movie Nurtas Adambay plays the main character Azamat. In the movie, Azamat, a son of a wealthy state official, is appointed as akim of a small Kazakh village, and is then forced to get used to the rural lifestyle.

Production

According to creator Nurtas Adambay, the filming of Akim only took 16–17 days. As reported by Kazinform, it took place in one of the villages 300 kilometres (190 mi) from Almaty. The movie is in both Russian and Kazakh.

According to Adambay himself, the title idea came from former Äkim of Shymkent Ğabidolla Äbdırahimov, though the plot concept was greatly reworked. This was Adambay's seventh work.

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