Biography: Viktor Pusurmanov (Kazakh: Виктор Пусурманов; 20 July, 1937; Irkutsk) was a Soviet and Kazakh film director and screenwriter. Graduated from the directing Department of the Kurmangazy Kazakh Institute of Arts (1964). He worked in theaters in Alma-Ata, interned at the Mosfilm film studio in Mikhail Kalatozov's group on the film "The Red Tent". Since 1976 — director of the Kazakhfilm film studio.