Samal Yeslyamova

Samal Yeslyamova

Born: September 1, 1984
Samal Yeslyamova (born September 1, 1984) is a Kazakh actress. Samal later studied at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts from 2007 to 2011 and she currently lives in Moscow. She made her screen debut in Tulpan (2008), Sergey Dvortsevoy’s drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film won many awards including the APSA for Best Feature Film. At the time of filming Tulpan, Samal was only 19 years old and struggled to adjust to household chores and motherly duties required during her month living in a nomadic yurt for the shoot. Ayka is Yeslyamova’s second feature film and at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival she was awarded the prize for Best Actress.

Movies for Samal Yeslyamova...

The Grand Siege
Title: The Grand Siege
Character: Mohi
Released: April 24, 2024
Type: Movie
Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife’s assistant Feyza, who are strongly attached to Berna’s legacy.
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Three
Title: Three
Released: June 1, 2022
Type: Movie
USSR Kazakhstan. Sher Sadykhov, who lives with his older sister, starts his internship at a special task force. Sher’s internship begins with the emergence of a serial killer that only kills women. New victims occur and the investigation seems to be at a blind alley. Meanwhile, Sher finds out that his sister is the new target of the serial killer…
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Title: Infiniti
Character: Irina
Released: April 4, 2022
Type: TV
The ISS, the International Space Station has gone silent. The crew is in distress. Simultaneously, a decapitated and waxed body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Positive identification leaves no room for doubt: the body belongs to an American astronaut currently on a mission on the ISS. A French astronaut, dismissed from the space program, and a Kazakh cop, disowned by his ranking hierarchy, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.
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District Center
Title: District Center
Released: September 13, 2021
Type: Movie
The regional center is not the center of paradise, but a small settlement, lost in the Orenburg steppes. the bus station, where regular buses arrive from all over the area, is a place of meeting and parting. This is where Radik, the protagonist of the story, comes to meet his older sister Rita, who is to take custody of him and his brothers and sisters. A large amount of money falls into the hands of the boy, which he wants to appropriate. But money is always a temptation. And temptation is where the main plot of humanity began.
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The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time
Title: The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: Movie
The Horse Thieves tells the story of gangsters who murder the father of a young family and steal the herd of horses that belonged to the village.
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Batyrlar
Title: Batyrlar
Released: March 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Karasai's parent Altynai prepares his son for subsequent participation in battles from an early age, teaching the boy various martial arts and skills. The boy willingly listens to his father's recommendations, and already in childhood he confidently uses a whip and a sword. When Karasai turns into an adult youth, a period of famine sets in, from which the relatives of the young man suffer. The guy leads the herds of his fellow tribesmen to fertile arable land, and soon aggressive Dzungars attack the lands of his people.
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Ayka
Title: Ayka
Character: Ayka
Released: February 14, 2018
Type: Movie
A young Asian immigrant worker in Moscow tried to track down her baby, whom she abandoned at the hospital.
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Tulpan
Title: Tulpan
Character: Samal
Released: March 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.
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Dad Died on Saturday
Title: Dad Died on Saturday
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Thirty—year-old Muscovite Aiko's dad died, with whom she had not communicated for many years - he was a real monster, and she does not feel sorry for him. But for some reason she goes to Kazakhstan for a funeral, where she sees her dad's new family for the first time: her stepsister is unbearable, her brother is not of this world, her stepmother is the same age as Aiko herself. And the strangest thing: for them, Dad is not a monster at all.