Acting
After completing a two-year course at the Kazakhfilm studio, Dimash Akhimov began acting in films in 1968. In 1970, he entered the acting department at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (Moscow) in the class of Boris Babochkin and graduated successfully in 1974. His diploma work included the lead role in William Shakespeare's play Othello, as well as the role of the mayor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector. In 1987, he entered the directing faculty at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, completing it in 1990. Over his 48-year acting career, he starred in more than 100 films and TV series across 13 studios in countries of the former USSR, as well as abroad, including Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Japan, India, Iran, and others. He currently resides in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His work in the film industry was recognized with the title "Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR" in 1990, and in 2008, he was awarded the "Order of Kurmet." In 2014, overcoming the language barrier, he played the role of a guide in the TV series Marco Polo, produced by The Weinstein Company. A year later, Dimash portrayed the criminal authority Buzaubas in Nurtas Adambayev's film Escape from the Village. Operation Mahabbat. In 2016, he played the role of the ruler of Moghulistan, Esen-Buga, in the film Kazakh Khanate.
The Inhabited Island
2009 · Movie
The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion
2009 · Movie
Hard to Be a God
2014 · Movie
The Fall of Otrar
1991 · Movie
Code of Silence 2. The Trail of the Black Fish
1994 · TV
Luna Papa
1999 · Movie
Who Are You, Horseman?
1987 · Movie
A Taste of Bread
1979 · Movie
The Leg
1991 · Movie
Waiting for the Sea
2012 · Movie
A Shot or It All Started on Saturday
1976 · Movie
The Sky of My Childhood
2011 · Movie
Alpamys Goes to School
1978 · Movie
Sultan Beybars
1989 · Movie
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Saga of the Love of Genghis Khan's Daughter
2005 · Movie
Once and for a Lifetime
1977 · Movie
Lord of Darkness
1990 · Movie
Fear of the Ninth Son, Oh Enemy
1984 · Movie
Atone for the Guilt
1984 · Movie
The Old Woman
2014 · Movie
My Home on the Green Hills
1985 · Movie
The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of...
1990 · Movie
The Descendant of the Snow Leopard
1984 · Movie
The Deer Man
1985 · Movie
Don Quixote of My Childhood
1978 · Movie
Goodbye, Medeo
1982 · Movie
Persecution
1989 · Movie
The Shelter for Majors
1988 · Movie
Abai
1995 · Movie
On the Night of Lunar Eclipse
1978 · Movie
The Cannibal
1991 · Movie
Tractor Driver's Love
2013 · TV
Golden Autumn
1980 · Movie
The Sand-Storm
1989 · Movie
Escape from Village
2015 · Movie
The Book of Legends: The Mysterious Forest
2012 · Movie
Shanghai
1996 · Movie
House Under the Moon
1983 · Movie
Nesibeli
1986 · Movie
Artemisia
1986 · Movie
The Last Crossing
1981 · Movie
The Long Milky Way
1983 · Movie
It's Time for Ringing Heat
1980 · Movie
Stay in the Saddle
1987 · Movie
The Stranger
1989 · Movie
