Tajikfilm ( tg, Тоҷикфилм, russian: Таджикфильм) is a Tajik (former
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
) film studio. Tajikfilm was founded in 1930 as a
newsreel
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, inform ...
studio; the studio released its first feature film in 1932 and its first talky in 1935. In 1941 Tajikfilm merged with
Soyuzdetfilm, only to reemerge in 1943. The studio produced films in both
Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
and
Tajik.
The studio is based in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...
,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
.
Since 1993, not a single film has been shot at the film studio due to lack of funding. The film studio staff survived on small international orders for video films and videos. In 2005, "Tajikfilm" began filming a large-scale epic "
Shamsiddin Shohin" - about the life of a Tajik classic.
Films
*''Smert' rostovschika'' (''Смерть ростовщика'') – 1966.
*''Skazanie o Rustame'' (''Сказание о Рустаме'') – 1972.
*''Rustam i Suhrab'' (''Рустам и Сухрaб'') – 1972.
*''Zvezda v nochi'' (''Звезда в ночи'') – 1972.
*''Tayna predkov'' (''Тайна предков'') – 1972.
*''Skazanie o Siyavysche'' (''Сказание о Сиявуше'') – 1976.
*''
The Bodyguard'' – 1979.
* (''В талом снеге звон ручья'') – 1983.
*''Semeinye tainy'' (''Семейные тайны'') – 1985.
*''Govoryaschii rodnik'' (''Говорящий родник'') – 1986.
*''
The Last Night of Scheherazade'' — 1987
References
External links
*
Movies Dictionary
Film production companies of the Soviet Union
Film studios
Cinema of Tajikistan
1930 establishments in the Soviet Union
Mass media companies established in 1930
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