Talgat Nigmatulin

Talgat Kadyrovich Nigmatulin (Tatar: Təlğət Qadıyr uğlı Niğmətulin, Russian: Талга́т Кады́рович Нигмату́ллин; 5 March 1949, Kyzyl-Kiya – 11 February 1985, Vilnius) was a famous Soviet actor and martial artist. Nigmatullin was born on October 5, 1949 in a Tatar-Uzbek family in Kirgizia. He took part in many action movies. Perhaps his most famous movie was Pirates of the XXth Century. He also appeared in the following films:

• 1969 — Her Name is Spring
• 1971 — The Night At the 14th Parallel
• 1972 — The Seventh Bullet
• 1977 — Armed and Very Dangerous
• 1979 — Pirates of the XXth Century
• 1981 — The Right to Shoot
• 1983 — The Wolf Pit
• 1984 — Lonely and Unarmed
• 1985 — Counterpoise

Nigmatulin became a follower of Abai Borubayev, a Sufi teacher from Central Asia who had found favour with Moscow art circles, and was murdered in 1985 by other followers of Borubayev, in the latter's presence.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Westerlund, David (ed.) (2004). Sufism in Europe and North America. New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon. p. 89. ISBN 0415325919. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5kSesBxHNDgC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=talgat+nigmatullin&source=bl&ots=qtlL7fnCLS&sig=UBkJTrwvl4DcgfyD1UK5u-z3m9A&hl=en&ei=rKFLSvfaAZSNjAed46jPCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3. 
2. ^ Talgat Nigmatulin at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Talgat Nigmatulin at the Internet Movie Database