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Filmmaker · Turkmenistan

Khodzhakuli Narliev

Khodzhakuli Narliev was born on 21 January 1937 in Ashgabat. A graduate of the Moscow Film Institute in 1960, he was first a cinematographer, notably on Bulat Mansurov's film in 1963, before moving into directing. His films focus on the condition of women in Soviet society, and he cast in them his wife, the actress Maýa-Gözel Aýmedowa, who co-wrote several of the screenplays. He became first secretary of the Union of Filmmakers of Turkmenistan.

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