Later, he explained in Russian that it was customary in his country for parents of a large family to offer a baby boy to an infertile couple.

He studied the required Russian language in school and roughhoused with other boys in the dusty, primitive village of Kuntu, where he still lives.

(In one scene in Beshkempir, villagers watch in wonder as a movie, showing a gaudy Indian song and dance number, is projected onto an outdoor screen.)

[2] In 1974, Aktan Arym Kubat graduated from Dzhamgerchinov High School, in the village of Kuntuu, and then went to Kyrgyz State Fine Arts College named after S. A. Chuykov, major in “Professor of painting and technical drawing”.

The Light Thief, in which Aktan Arym Kubat took the lead role, premiered at Director's Fortnight in Cannes, won numerous awards and was screened in many festivals such as Locarno, Toronto, Montreal, Viennale, Doha and others.

Furthermore, when I was a young boy, I was in love with my neighbour and I followed here everywhere... Another painful memory from my childhood that found its way to the film is growing up with an alcoholic father...

This is an autobiographical trilogy, I thought of someone closest to me to interpret my ideas, feelings and emotions, and I chose my son..."[5] In the next films The Light Thief and Centaur, Aktan Arym Kubat played the lead roles himself.