Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg (1992)
Synopsis
Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplified radiance so bright and so overexposed that it no longer looks like the skies of sunny Tashkent, but a disturbing, borderless luminosity to match the flat tonal range of Stalker’s “Zone.” Our Uzbek boys are nowhere in particular; this is a broader domain than anything international.
Release Date: 1992-07-13
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director: Zulfikar Musakov
Top Cast
- Shukhrat Kayumov as Abdulladzhan - alien
- Tuti Yusupova as Holida-aka - Bazarbai's wife
- Radzhab Adashev as Bazarbai
- Tuychi Aripov as Rais-ota - collective farm chairman
- Dzhavlon Khamrayev as Yuldash
- Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov as Hasanbai
- Jamol Hoshimov as Matkaul
- Sergey Dreyden as airplane pilot
- Galina Lukovnikova-Mamedova as village resident
- Abror Tursunov as шофер председателя
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