To Live and to Die in Samarkand

To Live and to Die in Samarkand (2007) is a documentary film directed by Oleg Karpov, Umida Akhmedova.

Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.