Bakhyt Sattarbekovich Kilibayev (Kazakh: Бақытжан Саттарбекұлы Қилыбаев; May 26, 1958; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian director, screenwriter, producer. He is best known as the co-author of the script for the film "Needle". In 1975-1978 he studied at the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad University. In 1985 he graduated from the script department of VGIK (workshop of Nikolai Figurovsky and A.Balikhin), in the process of studying he began to create humorous