Abdulladzhan, ili posvyashchaetsya Stivenu Spilbergu

Abdulladzhan, ili posvyashchaetsya Stivenu Spilbergu

🎞️ Movie 89 min RU
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1991

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.

Cast

Shukhrat Kayumov
Shukhrat Kayumov
Abdulladzhan - alien
Tuti Yusupova
Tuti Yusupova
Holida-aka - Bazarbai's wife
Radzhab Adashev
Radzhab Adashev
Bazarbai
Tuychi Aripov
Tuychi Aripov
Rais-ota - collective farm chairman
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Dzhavlon Khamrayev
Yuldash
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Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov
Hasanbai
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Turchi Aripov
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Dzhamal Khashimov
Matkaul
Sergey Dreyden
Sergey Dreyden
Airplane pilot
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Galina Lukovnikova-Mamedova
Village resident
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Mirzalil Makhmudov
Composer
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Talgat Mansurov
Cinematographer