Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
89 mins
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.
Rihsivoy Mukhamedzhanov
Screenplay
T. Boltobaev
Administration
N. Mamutov
Administration
Mirkhalil Makhmudov
Original Music Composer
Ulmaskhon Temirova
Lead Editor
Khamza Kadzhikulov
Production Design
D. Zhemchugova
Costume Design
Galina Geydelbakh
Makeup Designer
Farhad Abdusaidov
Production Manager
A. Shaymardanov
Assistant Director
M. Sultankhodzhaev
Assistant Director
Vyacheslav Shin
Sound Director
R. Rasulov
VFX Artist
A. Shkarin
Visual Effects Camera
Dmitriy Sideras
VFX Artist
Boris Vasilenko
Visual Effects Camera
Aleksandr Travitskiy
Still Photographer
Muzallar Zakirov
Camera Operator
Mutobar Asadullaeva
Assistant Editor
Roziya Mergenbaeva
Script Editor
S. Khudaiberdyev
Thanks
Talgat Mansurov
Director of Photography