Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
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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.
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Cast
36 people
Shukhrat Kayumov
Abdulladzhan - alien
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Tuti Yusupova
Holida-aka - Bazarbai's wife
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Radzhab Adashev
Bazarbai
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The Bodyguard
Tuychi Aripov
Rais-ota - collective farm chairman
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Dzhavlon Khamrayev
Yuldash
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Investigator by Profession
Roads of Fire
Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov
Hasanbai
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Code of Silence. On the Dark Side of the Moon
Initial Data: Death
Jamol Hoshimov
Matkaul
Also in
Code of Silence. On the Dark Side of the Moon
The Oath of Jantai
Sergey Dreyden
airplane pilot
Known for
Russian Ark
Petrov's Flu
Galina Lukovnikova-Mamedova
village resident
Also in
Мещанская свадьба
A Leaf from a Notebook
Abror Tursunov
шофер председателя
Also in
The Potter and the Pot
Opium
Ergash Muminov
Boltobay - Bazarbai's son
Also in
Little Man in a Big War
Vladimir Menshov
Ivan Ivanovich Nakhlobuchko - general
Known for
Night Watch
Legend No. 17
Zulfikar Musakov Director · Rikhsivoy Muhammadjanov Writer Mirkhalil Makhmudov Composer
First release December 2, 1991 · Produced in Russia, Russia, Uzbekistan · Languages Russian, Uzbek
Production
Vatan
Production
Russia · Russia · Uzbekistan
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Languages
Original title
Абдуллажон, ёки Стевен Спиелбергга багʻишланади
Original language
Uzbek
Spoken on screen
Russian · Uzbek
Release dates
Russia · December 2, 1991
Premiere · Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Russia · July 13, 1992
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No release date listed for United States.
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