Davlat Khudonazarov

Davlatnazar Khudonazarov was born in 1944 in Khorog, in Gorno-Badakhshan, in the Pamirs. A cameraman and documentary maker, he made his first film in 1966, about mountain villages cut off from the world in winter, then moved on to fiction. Elected People's Deputy of the Soviet Union in 1988, he chaired the Union of Soviet Filmmakers from 1989. The Democratic Party's candidate in the first presidential election of independent Tajikistan, in November 1991, he won nearly a third of the votes, then devoted himself to human rights.

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• CinemaВ талом снеге звон ручьяDavlat Khudonazarov · 1982Cinema