Assel Sadvakassova
Acting
Biography
**Assel Sadvakassova** is a Kazakh singer, actress, and producer. She was born on January 31, 1985, in Karaganda. In 2006, she launched a solo music project under the name *Ayari*, resulting in a solo album and several music videos that quickly gained popularity. Assel Sadvakassova has starred in several well-known films, including: - *Unbroken* (2015) - *Kelin Also a Human* (2017–2018) - *Married at 30* (2015) - *Atbay’s Fight* (2019) In 2021, she produced the comedy *My Big Kazakh Family*, in which she also played one of the lead roles.
Born: January 31, 1985
Place of Birth: Karaganda, USSR (Kazakhstan)
Known For
Ademoka’s Education
Ademoka is a headstrong and gifted 15-year-old girl whose big dream is to study. Her status as Lyuli an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan is a serious obstacle to this. She is exploited by her extended family and forced to beg on the streets, she manages to free herself from the family, when they get deported she has to choose between family and education. She gets helped on the way by some oddball characters, who come to her aid against the corrupt system and the patriarchal family.
Ulbolsyn
Life in Karatas Village runs along an untroubled path, until its patriarchal way of life is challenged by Ulbolsyn, a woman whose coldblooded heart and blazing temperament are not afraid of setting everything on fire.
My Big Kazakh Family
Manarbek has four children: a son and three daughters. His first child is married to an Armenian woman. The eldest daughter married a Korean, the middle daughter married a Russian. But the father wants to marry his youngest daughter to a Kazakh, but that was not the case. Her choice falls on an African.
The Gift to Stalin
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
Burst
A drama about messed up athlete who tries to regain his career.
Herd Immunity
Selkeu Uashev is a local police officer at Karatas village. He’s not a man of high morals and can hardly be called a role model as a policeman. He turns a deaf ear to lots of criminal offences and takes bribes. For that he’s loved a lot by local criminals and frauds. But one day the commission arrives from the city to declare the big audit all over the village due to pandemic…
Daughter-in-Law Is Also A Human 2
In the festive turmoil between children's matinees, corporate parties and feasts, the deeply pregnant Aizhan and the recently hired Maksat will pass a test of their feelings and especially feel each other, as they swap bodies on a random occasion.
The Family Man
Mukhtar, experiencing a mid-life crisis, has a job, a house, a family, and credit. He is convinced that it's all the fault of his early marriage. Soon the man wakes up in a luxurious surroundings as a wealthy businessman, but the price for such a transformation is his relatives. Now his best friend is the head of the Mukhtar's former family...
Classmates
Fifteen years have passed since graduation, and the main characters, former classmates, all gather together again. At the reunion, the seniors reminisce about funny incidents from their wild youth. The viewers join them on a fascinating journey back in time, situations with which almost everyone is familiar.
A Movie By The Rules
The unsuccessful screenwriter and director Kanat Kozhanov, who is just starting to build his career, encounters a gang. The criminals are hiding from a lieutenant colonel from the department that fights against organized crime, so they have to make a movie of the main character and play the leading roles in it. The main goal of the bandits is to escape from prosecution, find the diamond and remove witnesses.
Filmography
as School policewoman
as Turiya
as Damira
as Aliya
as Анель
as Adele
as Makpal
as Young Kazakh Woman