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Tashkent · 1897
In 1897 — according to some sources on 30 October — Tashkent saw its first film show, just 22 months after Paris.
0 months from Paris to Tashkent
≈ 5,150 km as the crow flies
According to some researchers, Lumière operator Félix Mesguich was in Turkestan that year.
Khudaibergen Devanov · Khiva · 1910
Khiva photographer Khudaibergen Devanov brought a Pathé camera back from St Petersburg and in 1910 filmed Asfandiyar Khan riding in a phaeton.
He is called the founder of Uzbek photography and cinema. His photographs are held by the Getty Research Institute.
Bukhkino · Bukhara · 1924
The Bukharan People’s Republic signed a deal with Leningrad’s Sevzapkino — and Bukhkino was born.
Its only feature film was Vyacheslav Viskovsky’s The Minaret of Death (1925).
Sharq Yulduzi (“Star of the East”) · Tashkent · 1925
In Tashkent, Central Asia’s first film factory — Sharq Yulduzi, “Star of the East” — opened in an old madrasa.
Sharq Yulduzi → Uzbekfilm · 1936
The studio became Uzbekfilm. In wartime it was Tashkent Film Studio; Uzbekfilm again from 1958.
Maftuningman · 1958 · Uzbekfilm
Maftuningman, a black-and-white musical comedy full of songs, is considered the first Uzbek comedy.
Tashkent, City of Bread · 1968 · Shukhrat Abbasov
Directed by Shukhrat Abbasov (1931–2018, born in Kokand): boys fleeing famine come to Tashkent in search of bread.
The film is based on a novella by Alexander Neverov.
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