Nurkhon Ishmukhamedov
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing that his large family decides to surprise him and also goes to Turkmenistan to meet the bride and her parents. The chain of comic misunderstandings ends with an episode of a skirmish on the border with saboteurs.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After retiring, former Red Army commander Iskhak Sherov returns to Kyzyltash, the town he helped build. Seeking a peaceful life, he becomes embroiled in a conflict between residents wanting a public garden and the mayor, his old comrade Namazov, who opposes it. Sherov ultimately resolves the conflict in favor of the townspeople.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young man Bakhtiyar falls in love with a girl he saw on the TV screen.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About the struggle of Uzbek women against the reactionary clergy in the 1920s.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Worker
Beautifully shot in black and white, and scripted by Tarkovsky's collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky, this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, to earn some money for his hungry family. Filming in the periphery of the Soviet Union, in a time of relative political relaxation, director Shukhrat Abbasov actually dared to depict the poverty and famine that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution.