Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
Release Date: 1992-07-13
Rating : 5.9/10
Duration : 89 minutes
Genres : Comedy, Science Fiction
Director : Zulfikar Musakov
Writer : Zulfikar Musakov, Rihsivoy Mukhamedzhanov
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.
Cast
Shukhrat Kayumov
Tuti Yusupova
Radzhab Adashev
Tuychi Aripov
Dzhavlon Khamrayev
Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov