Talgat Nigmatulin

Talgat Nigmatulin
Born	Talgat Kadyrovich Nigmatulin March 5, 1949 Kyzyl-Kiya, Kyrgyz SSR
Died	February 11, 1985 (aged 35) Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR

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 20th 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 20th 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 0-415-32591-9.
2. Talgat Nigmatulin at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Talgat Nigmatulin at the Internet Movie Database