Timur Bekmambetov Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Commonly regarded as one of the most commercially successful directors of early 21th century Russia, Timur Bekmambetov traveled the path of many a feature helmer by beginning his career in the advertising arena and guiding a series of popular television advertisements through to fruition....Read More

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Wanted

Crew: Director

Actors: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common

Synopsis: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Read More

6/27/08
Day Watch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Victor Verzhbitsky

Synopsis: The apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Day Watch (AKA vevnoy Dozor: Mel Sudbi, 2006) constitutes the second installment in a planned supernatural trilogy by Russian fantasist director Timur Bekmambetov. As preceded by 2004's blockbuster Night Watch and followed by Dusk Watch, this sophomore film picks up Read More

6/1/07
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie

Crew: Director

2007
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Crew: Producer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly

2007
Night Watch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tyunina, Victor Verzhbitsky

Synopsis:
Two bands of warriors, one good and one evil, battle to keep the peace in Moscow in this cat's cradle thriller from Russia. In 1342, the Warriors of Light (led by Gesser, Lord of Light) and the Warriors of Darkness (led by Zavulon, General of Darkness) declare a truce under which each side Read More

2/17/06
The Arena

Crew: Director

Actors: Karen McDougal, Lisa Dergan, Viktor Verzbitsky, Jennifer Murphy

Synopsis: Gladiator undergoes a gender reassignment in this period action-drama. In ancient Rome, the decadent appetite of corrupt Governor Timarchus (Victor Verzbitsky) is no longer satisfied by the site of men battling to the death. Jessemina (Karen McDougal) is a slave who must obey the whims of her Read More

2001
Peshavarsky Vals

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Kushner, Viktor Verzbitsky, Gennadiy Kayumov, A. Shemes, Sergei Plotnikov

Synopsis: This intense and graphic Russian war drama contains a fervent anti-war message as it realistically reenacts a blood-filled event from the Afghanistan war. It is based on actual events chronicled by Andrei Sakharov, a Russian dissident. The film is set within a military base in the Peshavar region Read More

1994