Cinema
Daughter-in-Law
Nevestka
Khodzhakuli Narliev · 1972
Synopsis
In an isolated yurt in the Turkmen desert, the old shepherd Ama-aga lives with his flocks and his daughter-in-law Ogulkejik. The young woman's husband, Murad, has not come back from the war, and he is said to be dead; she refuses to believe it. Despite her family, who press her to remarry, she stays with her father-in-law, looks after him, shares the daily work and keeps, with her memories, the hope of a return.
Context
The director wrote the screenplay with his brother, Hojadurdy Narlyýew; the cinematography is by Anatoli Ivanov, the music by Rejep Rejepow. Its Turkmen title is Gelin. It has been called the film that put Turkmen cinema on the map, and the Moscow festival took it up again in 2011 in a programme devoted to the socialist avant-garde. The historian Michael Rouland sees in it an image of Turkmen life at the edge of the desert during the war, in the line of Soviet films about those who stayed behind the lines.
Who it is for
A short colour film of one hour twenty, played by Turkmen performers and distributed in a version dubbed into Russian.
Prizes and reception
USSR State Prize for the director and for Maýa-Gözel Aýmedowa; regarded by the University of Pittsburgh as the most important Turkmen film.
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