Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
Абдуллажон, ёки Стевен Спиелбергга багʻишланади
Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg at SFlix. 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.
- Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
- Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Zulfikar Musakov
- Cast: Shukhrat Kayumov, Tuti Yusupova, Radzhab Adashev, Tuychi Aripov, Dzhavlon Khamrayev, Khodzhiakbar Nurmatov, Dzhamal Khashimov, Sergey Dreyden, Galina Lukovnikova-Mamedova, Abror Tursunov, Ergash Muminov, Vladimir Menshov, Vladimir Tsvetov, O. Ibragimova, Yulduz Khamidova, Barno Qodirova, Valeri Tsvetkov, Gennadios Patsis, Stanislav Falko, Nuriddin Mamutov, Makhmud Gafurzhanov,
