Cinema
Kosh ba kosh
Кош ба кош
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov · 1993
Synopsis
In 1993, Mira returns from Russia to Dushanbe and learns that her father has lost her in a game: Ibrohim, an elderly man who won the game, claims her. She goes into hiding as the civil war spreads through the city, and meets Daler, a smooth-talking gambler who operates a dilapidated cable car with yellow cabins. He takes her into his world suspended between sky and earth, where the control cabin and the gondolas serve as their home, and a love story develops amid the fighting.
Context
Written by the director with Leonid Makhkamov, the film was shot in Tajik and Russian, with Daler Madjidov and Paulina Gálvez in the leading roles. Begun in the autumn of 1992, while Islamists were fighting the regime of Rakhmon Nabiev, the shoot was interrupted several times and resumed only after the entry of Russian forces into Dushanbe and a temporary ceasefire. Ninety-five minutes long, the film was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 1993, then distributed in Switzerland by trigon-film.
Who it is for
For those interested in Central Asian cinema of the nineties and in love stories in wartime.
Prizes and reception
Silver Lion for direction at Venice in 1993, it also received the grand prize at the Fribourg festival the following year.
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