Archive: August 2nd, 2010
Saratan is a film made in 2005 by the Kyrgyz director Ernest Abdyjaparov, with financial assistance from Germany, and distributed in the West by a German company. The film was made more than ten years after the demise of the Soviet Union - when the various socialist republics suddenly found themselves with unexpected independence – which brought with it an economic malaise following the withdrawal [...]
Beshkempir, (known in the West as “The Adopted Son”), a film by Aktan Abdikalikov and was made in 1988. It was his first feature film and has been hailed as “a worldwide success”.
Ernest Abdyjaparov was born in Bishkek in 1961. After finishing High School, in 1978, he made several applications to enter the All Union Cinematography Institute in Moscow – ironically, as it turned out, unsuccessfully. Instead, he launched himself into a varied career which included: a year with the Music School of the Osh Pedagogical Institute; [...]
Tolomosh Okeev, (1937-2001), was a film director whose output attracted admirers from abroad as well as at home. His shot his first film, “There are horses”, in 1965, and his last in 1986.
During the week I cam across a news item headed: “Initiative group translates famous Kyrgyz movies into English“. According to the article, a group of Kyrgyz citizens living abroad have put together a plan for a Festival of Kyrgyz films, and in preparation for this have already translated several films into English, such as: Gennadiy [...]
