Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev (31 December 1951 – 14 January 2017) was a Russian Soviet

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and

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. He was born in Frunze to Kaisyn Kuliev, an acclaimed

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poet and Maka, his Ingush wife, during the

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of the

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to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. His younger brother

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is a

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actor living and working in Hollywood. His youngest brother

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is a Russian painter living and working in Istanbul, Turkey.

Career

Kuliev graduated from directing class of Aleksandr Zguridy at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He was married to a Russian poet

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. From that marriage they have a daughter Elizaveta Kulieva, a Russian poet. He is a writer of original

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for the TV miniseries ''The Wounded Stones'', named after his father's poetry book and developed at Dovzhenko Film Studios (USSR) in 1987. Soviet authorities considered Kuliev's creative work, notably his novel ''The Farewell Look'', to be contrary to the "general line" of the existing political regime, and his works were placed under a publication ban in the USSR. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Kuliev could not continue his career as a result of a car accident and a subsequent serious illness. Kuliev died in his apartment in Moscow on 14 January 2017.

References

External links

* Robert Conquest, ''The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities'' (London: MacMillan, 1970) ()
Eldar Kuliev pasts away

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