On June 15, 2019 Arystanbek Muhameduly, Minister of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was on a working visit in Otrar region. During the visit Minister Arystanbek Muhamediuly met with the Director Designer of Turkey Metin Guney and introduced the medieval Otrar. Under the leadership of Metin Guney, it was decided that the film studio "Kazakhfilm" would be present Kasim Khan as a person who fought for the prosperity and strengthening of the Kazakh Khanate. It is known that the shooting will start in the city of Otrar.
Metin Guney, a director of the largest film project “Ertgyryl” said: “First of all, I am glad to be here and I thank Minister Arystanbek Muhamediuly, who showed me this region”.
We have a common history; we are starting to make a film about the life of the historical personality of Kasym khan. We are currently exploring suitable locations for our shooting. As we plan to do great things, we explore authentic historical sites. We also have three film sets. “There are many historical cities in our history, but we are planning to shoot in this historical place indeed,” he told reporters.
Expressing gratitude to Metin, the Minister of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan Arystanbek Mukhamediuly noted that the President of the country met with Mr. Metin during the year, did a great job and told about the scenario of the television series about Kasym Khan. He also said: “Our goal should be to unite all works of art into one system; attracting to these major projects we will demonstrate our ancient cities Otrar, Sauran, Sarayshyk.
Along with such large-scale projects, restoration work is carried out in historic places. For us, this film project is a very difficult and important project, so we are doing a lot of preparatory work. Our main goal is to show our history to the world and attract foreign tourists to our country. ”