Cinema
Shum bola
Damir Salimov · 1977
Synopsis
Tashkent, summer 1916. Qoravoy, a poor boy, lives with his sisters and his widowed mother, worn out by being unable to feed her children on her own. Scolded for taking out eggs and lard meant for a plov among boys, he hides in an abandoned house, runs into the gang of the thief Sultan there and has to flee the city. A wandering begins, from village to bazaar and from estate to orchard: he tends animals, picks apples for a rich man, and gets out of every tight spot by cunning. Back in Tashkent, he earns a good living with an old man who keeps an opium den, but he misses his family.
Context
The film comes from a story by Gʻafur Gʻulom, which Shukhrat Abbasov and Aleksandr Naumov turned into a screenplay; the cinematography is by T. Kayumov and the lead role is played by Abduraim Abduvahobov. It runs one hour thirty-five minutes and is in Uzbek and Russian; it was released in Soviet cinemas on 20 July 1978. The adaptation leaves out several episodes of the original text, the stay with the uncle, the time among the dervishes and most of what happens to Comrade Aman, and follows the writer's life more closely. The hero's interior monologue has disappeared in the process, along with the notations of local culture, which makes some scenes obscure for anyone unfamiliar with the Central Asia of the time.
Who it is for
In Uzbek and Russian, with no French version. A series of adventures and pranks, seen from a boy's height, against a background of popular life.
Prizes and reception
It counts among the Uzbek films most loved by the public, and both Uzbek and foreign critics have praised it.
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