Uzbek Classic screened at CCCAC
Shuhrat Abbasov's 1957 epic You Aren't Orphaned was screened at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, SOAS, London on 15 November.
The film comes from the Central Asia Cinema Collection portraying life in Central
Asia during the Soviet and post-Soviet settings. The collection, is titled as “Two Epochs of National Self-Determination in Central Asian Cinema: The ’60s and ’90s” and contains two sets of films, feature and documentary. Both sets contain 10 films—five made during the Soviet times, and five made since independence—that are emblematic of each Central Asian Republic. The countries represented in the collection are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. A Central Asian cinema expert, Gulnara Abikeyeva, was commissioned to bring together this DVD collection by the Open Society Institute.
Movie title: You are not an orphan / Ты не сирота
A quick synopsis from the OSI Archives:
The film is the touching story of an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated to Uzbekistan during World War II while the family's own son was drafted to the front. Children of different nationalities and ages learn to live together in one house - a veritable metaphor for the multi-national country itself. The Makamov family shelters a Russian, an Uzbek, a Jew and Lithuanian a Tatar, a Kazakh, etc.
Every child gets into the family by accident but eventually stays on by the decision and the good will of the foster parents who realize that their house is a safe haven for the kids during the complicated times, certainly preferable to the orphanage. The film combines staple patriotic and internationalist ideas of the time with the affirmation of the national mentality of the Uzbek people.
The film's director, Shukhrat Abbasov, received the "Hamza," a State award of Uzbek SSR. The film was also awarded best screenplay prize at the first All-Union film festival in Leningrad, 1964.Shukhrat Abbasov, Uzbekistan, 1963, Russian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, fiction film, DVD-ROMs
Film fans may get additional information from the following Russian language sites:
http://www.kinoexpert.ru/
http://www.uzbekkino.uz/ru/people/actor
http://www.kinoportal.uz/
http://www.kino.uz/
The film comes from the Central Asia Cinema Collection portraying life in Central
Asia during the Soviet and post-Soviet settings. The collection, is titled as “Two Epochs of National Self-Determination in Central Asian Cinema: The ’60s and ’90s” and contains two sets of films, feature and documentary. Both sets contain 10 films—five made during the Soviet times, and five made since independence—that are emblematic of each Central Asian Republic. The countries represented in the collection are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. A Central Asian cinema expert, Gulnara Abikeyeva, was commissioned to bring together this DVD collection by the Open Society Institute.Movie title: You are not an orphan / Ты не сирота
A quick synopsis from the OSI Archives:
The film is the touching story of an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated to Uzbekistan during World War II while the family's own son was drafted to the front. Children of different nationalities and ages learn to live together in one house - a veritable metaphor for the multi-national country itself. The Makamov family shelters a Russian, an Uzbek, a Jew and Lithuanian a Tatar, a Kazakh, etc.Every child gets into the family by accident but eventually stays on by the decision and the good will of the foster parents who realize that their house is a safe haven for the kids during the complicated times, certainly preferable to the orphanage. The film combines staple patriotic and internationalist ideas of the time with the affirmation of the national mentality of the Uzbek people.
The film's director, Shukhrat Abbasov, received the "Hamza," a State award of Uzbek SSR. The film was also awarded best screenplay prize at the first All-Union film festival in Leningrad, 1964.Shukhrat Abbasov, Uzbekistan, 1963, Russian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, fiction film, DVD-ROMsFilm fans may get additional information from the following Russian language sites:
http://www.kinoexpert.ru/
http://www.uzbekkino.uz/ru/people/actor
http://www.kinoportal.uz/
http://www.kino.uz/
Comments