Mankurt (1990 film)
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Music director Redzhep Redzhepov Duration Country TurkmenistanUSSR | Director Khodzhakuli Narliev Screenplay Mariya Urmatova Writer Mariya Urmatova Language Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Khodzhadurdy Narliev, Baba Annanov, Yilmaz Duru Similar movies Chinghiz Aitmatov wrote the story for Mankurt and wrote the screenplay for The Girl with the Red Scarf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mankurt (Turkmen: Mankurt, Russian: Манкурт - "Manwolf", or "Bird memory") is a 1990 Soviet film written by Mariya Urmatova and the last film directed by Hojaguly Narlyýew. The main cast were the Turkish actors tr:Tarık Tarcan, tr:Yılmaz Duru and the Turkmen actors Maýa-Gözel Aýmedowa, Hojadurdy Narliýew, Maýsa Almazowa.
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Turkmen film mankurt 1990
Background
The film was partially filmed on location in Syria and in Turkey, representing a Turkish-Soviet cooperation in filmmaking. The film is based on one narrative strand within the novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ("И дольше века длится день") by Chinghiz Aitmatov, a philosophical tale about what can happen to people if they forget their motherland, language, and history. The Turkic legend mentioned in the novel tells about a cruel way of making a mankurt of a captive man in the hopes that he will forget everything but basic activities and, thus, becomes an ideal slave of Djungar masters.
Synopsis
The film is about a Turkmenian who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.
References
Mankurt (1990 film) WikipediaMankurt (1990 film) IMDb