On March 15, 2013 at 15:00 hours there in the Exhibition hall took place the memory evening dedicated to the 90-th birthday of the cinema director, honored figure of arts of Kazakhstan Sultanakhmet Khodzhikov.

   The organizer: the art-club “Inzhu-Marzhan” at the National library of the RK. The moderator at the evening was the well-known cinema director, honored figure of Kazakhstan Bolat Sharip.

   Sultanakhmet Khodzhikov (1923-1988) is a cinema director, honored figure of arts of Kazakhstan. He was born in Zhambyl city. He graduated from the directors’ faculty of the VGIK (1953, mentor A.Dovzhenko). He began his labour activity at the “Kazakhfilm” cinema studio. From 1974 he worked as the artistic head of the given cinema studio. The motion picture “Mother and son” is the first film staged by the young director by his own script. He also wrote the script for such historical films like: “We are from Semirechye”, “If everyone of us would only” and others. He shot the films: “Chinara na skale”, “We are proud of ourselves” about the wrestler Khadjimukan, “The Panfilov soldiers” and others. For the film “Kyz-Zhibek which is one of the best films in the national cinematography”, S.Khodzhikov was awarded the State prize of Kazakhstan. He is awarded by the order of the USSR – “The Red star” and by medals.

   There within the framework of the activity was organized the book-illustrative exhibition “Kemel syuretker” about the life and creative activity of S.Khodzhikov.

   There at the evening spoke the cinema director Bolat Nusimbekov, Saule Khodzhikova, Kasym Begalin, the sound director Kadyrzhan Kosai, the actress of the theatre and cinema Meruert Utekeshova and readers.