Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg (1992)

Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg

1992

1h 29m

5.9

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: UZ

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Production Information

Production Companies

Vatan

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Spoken Languages

Russian Uzbek

Quick Facts

Original Title	Абдуллажон, ёки Стевен Спиелбергга багʻишланади
Release Date	July 13, 1992
Status	Released
Language	UZ
IMDb ID	tt0101263