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Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
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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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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Genre:Comedy, Science Fiction
Written By:Zulfikar Musakov, Rikhsivoy Muhammadjanov
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Runtime:89 minutes
Studio:Vatan
Cast
Zulfikar Musakov
Director
Shukhrat Kayumov
Abdulladzhan - alien
Tuti Yusupova
Holida-aka - Bazarbai's wife
Radzhab Adashev
Bazarbai
Tuychi Aripov
Rais-ota - collective farm chairman
Dzhavlon Khamrayev
Yuldash
Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov
Hasanbai
Jamol Hoshimov
Matkaul
Sergey Dreyden
airplane pilot
Galina Lukovnikova-Mamedova
village resident
Abror Tursunov
шофер председателя
Ergash Muminov
Boltobay - Bazarbai's son
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