| Eldar Kuliev | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 31, 1951 Frunze, USSR |
| Nationality | Balkar |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Eldar Kaisynovich Kouliev (born December 31, 1951) is a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was bornto the family of Kaisyn Kuliev, an acclaimed Balkar poet, in Frunze during the deportation of the Balkars to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan . His younger brother Alim Kouliev is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood. His youngest brother Azamat Kuliev is a Russian painter living and working in Istanbul, Turkey.
Eldar 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 Bella Akhmadulina. From that marriage they have a daughter Elizaveta Kulieva, a Russian poet.[1] He is a writer of original script for the TV miniseries The Wounded Stones, named after his father's poetry book and developed at Dovzhenko Film Studios (USSR) in 1987.[2] His novel The Farewell Look, written in Russian, was translated to Balkar language and published in literary magazine Mingitau in Nalchik. He could not publish any other novel or accomplish any film project in the USSR. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Kouliev could not continue his career as a result of a car accident and a subsequent serious illness. He is living in Moscow.