Festivals: call for entries

Kyrgyz Serial: The contest of scripts (2024_kg)
 
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Call for entries: The VI Film Forum Of Women Film Directors Of Kyrgyzstan

 

Deadline: 01.03.2024

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XI Forum of the young cinema Umut-2024

 

Dates & place: 28.03-01.04.24, 2024, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Cinema Department with support: Interstate humanitarian cooperation fund
Participants: Ex-Soviet countries
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:00

Bird memory - Mankurt
 
Seven years ago - on the 10th of the June 2008 - Mr. Chingiz Aitmatov, great Kyrgyz writer died.
 
I decided to see this movie today.
 
Mankurt is a 1990 Soviet film written by Mariya Urmatova and the last film directed by Khodjakuli Narliev. The main cast were Tarik Tardzhan, Maya-Gozel Aymedova, Jylmaz Duru, Khodzhadurdy Narliev, and Maysa Almazova.
 

Synopsis. The film is about a Turkmenian who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.

 
Background. The film was partially filmed on location in Libya and Turkey, representing a Turkish-Soviet cooperation in filmmaking. The film is based on one narrative strand within the novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ("И дольше века длится день") by Chingiz Aitmatov, a philosophical tale about what can happen to people if they forget their motherland, language, and history. The Turkic legend mentioned in the novel tells about a cruel way of making a mankurt of a captive man in the hopes that he will forget everything but basic activities and, thus, becomes an ideal slave of Djungar masters.
 

 

Taric Tarcan - Joloman

 

Maya-Gozel Aymedova - Mother

 

Mankurt (former Joloman) & Kabbor (Khodjadurdy Narliev)

 

"You must remember me! I am your mother!"