Kazakh actor named best at SCO Film Festival in China

Kazakh actor named best at SCO Film Festival in China

Kazakh actor Bakhyt Khajibayev received an award at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Film Festival in China. He won in the Best Actor category for his leading role in the film «Operation Nabat.» The competition featured 20 films from 10 countries, evaluated by a respected international jury. The Kazakh film is based on real events and tells the story of a bus hijacking with 30 hostages in February 1992. Thanks to the professionalism of Kazakhstan’s security forces, the operation ended without casualties.