Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov
 He
was born in Dushanbe, Tadjikistan, in 1965. He worked as a scriptwriter
and in film production at the Tadjikfilm Studios, as well as in radio
and television. He went on to study film direction at MoscowÕs Film
Institute (VGIK), from where he graduated in 1989. He directed his
first short film in 1986 and the documentary Dog Hunt in 1989, while
still a student. His first feature, Little Brother, won awards at
international film festivals, including the Grand Prize at the Manheim
Film Festival. Kosh Ba Kosh was his second film as a director and
his first as a producer. It won him the Silver Lion for Best Director
at the Venice Film Festival, 1993. In 1999, he made Luna Papa, which
also won several awards at international film festivals. The
Suit is his latest film.
FILMOGRAPHY
1989 Verish - ne verish (documentary)
1992 Bratan
1994 Kosh ba kosh
1999 Lunnyi Papa
2003 Shik
|
Bratan / THE LITTLE BROTHER
Tadjikistan - Russia 1991
Direction: Bakhtiyar Khudoynazarov. Screenplay:
Leonid Mahkamov, Bakhtiyar Khudoynazarov. Cinematography:
Gheorgy Dzalaev. Editing: Tatyana Maltseva. Sound:
Rustam Akhadov. Music: Ahmad Bakaev. Cast:
Timur Tursunov, Firuz Sabzaliev. Production: Soyuztelefilm
35mm B&W 100min
Farruh and Azamat, two brothers of seventeen and seven, live with
their grandmother in a small Tadjik town. One day, they set out
to visit their father, who works as a doctor in a sanatorium. Tired
of looking after his younger brother, and wishing to live his own
life, Farruh is planning to leave Azamat with their father. As
they travel by train across the steppes of Tadjikistan, they will
meet with all kinds of adventures.
Kosh ba kosh / ODD AND EVEN
Tadjikistan - Russia 1992
Direction: Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov. Screenplay: Bakhtiyar
Khudoinazarov, Leonid Makhkamov. Cinematography: Georgy Dzalaiev.
Music: Akhmad Bakaev. Sets: Anvar Aripov. Costumes:
Bakhtiyar Umarov, Nadja Lelina. Cast: Paulina Galver, Daler Madjidav,
Alisher Kasimov, Bokkhodur Djurabajev, Albarji Bakhirova, Rahmonkul Kurbanov.
Production: VYSS Feature Film Production Co.
35mm
Colour 90min
Mira, a young woman living in Western Russia, comes to
visit her father in Dushanbe, the capital of Tadjikistan. Her father, a born
loser, is addicted to gambling. Through a stroke of fate, he even loses Mira,
his own flesh and blood, to an old codger who takes her as collateral. For Daler,
a young gambler who is no stranger to risk, its love at first sight. Daler operates
the local cable car, and his cabins transport all manner of goods: tourists,
fodder, crates of beer, contraband; they even double as an aerial love nest.
He prepares a romantic picnic, transcending heaven and earth, and proceeds to
conquer Miras heart.
Shik / THE SUIT
Germany - Russia 2003
Direction: Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov. Screenplay: Oleg
Antonov. Cinematography: Vladimir Klimov. Sound: Rustam Akhadov.
Music: Daler Nazarov. Sets: Alexander Shchurikin. Costumes: Svetlana Titova.
Cast: Alexander Yatsenko, Artur Povolotsky, Ivan Kokorin, Ingeborga
Dapkunaite, Andrei Panin, Nikolai Fomenko. Producers: Ruben Dishdishian, Bakhtiyar
Khudoinazarov. Production:
Central Partnership & Pandora Films
35mm Colour 92min
Three young men, aged around 18, live in a small Russian
town by the Black Sea. Their world is one of poverty, teenage pranks, petty crime
and various other morally dubious enterprises. Underneath their rough exterior,
they are normal teenagers, with the usual problems, doubts and insecurities.
Their dream is to escape the dragging, shabby existence in their hometown and
to find some meaning to life¯or at least a lot of money and success. One day,
while visiting a large city on the coast, they walk by a fashionable boutique
and see a Gucci suit in the window. They make a pact: to obtain the suit at any
price.
|
