
Rustem Abdrashev
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 10, 1970
- Birthplace
- Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Rustem Zharaskanovich Abdrashev (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.
Filmography

Fake-овый арман 2025
Director

Kazakh Khanate: The Golden Throne 2019
Director, Screenplay

Kazakh Khanate: Diamond Sword 2017
Director, Screenplay

Breaking The Vicious Circle 2014
Screenplay, Director

Iron Mountain 2013
Screenplay, Director

Fiery River 2013
Screenplay, Director

Astana, I Love You 2012
Director

The Sky of My Childhood 2011
Screenplay, Director

The Gift to Stalin 2008
Director

Patchwork Quilt 2007
Director

Rebirth Island 2005
Screenplay, Director

The Biography of a Young Accordian Player 1994
Actor, Production Design

The Dove's Bell-ringer 1994
Production Design

The Wild East 1993
Production Design

Lovers of December 1992
Decorator

The Fall of Otrar 1991
Assistant Production Design

The Running Target 1991
Production Design
Credits from TMDB.