by Sharofat Arabova, a film historian, member of Netpac (Tajikistan)
The first film shootings on the territory of modern Tajikistan were carried out by visiting cinematographers, amateur photographers and travelers during the first decades of 20th century and were mostly ethnographic by nature. Similar to other former Soviet republics, the development of the cinema in Tajikistan was associated with the State Tajikfilm Studio from its foundation up to 1990s.
The Tajikfilm studio was founded on the premises of a small film-processing lab that initially produced newsreels assembled monthly under the title Soviet Tajikistan. The founders of this lab—Artem Shevich, Nikolay Gezulin and Vasiliy Kuzin—would go down in history as the pioneers of Tajik cinema when their memorable footage of the arrival of the first train in Dushanbe (1929) was exhibited during the proclamation of the Tajik Ssr on 16 October 1929. The following year, the Soviet Government subsidized the renovation of the lab and established Tajikkino,...
The first film shootings on the territory of modern Tajikistan were carried out by visiting cinematographers, amateur photographers and travelers during the first decades of 20th century and were mostly ethnographic by nature. Similar to other former Soviet republics, the development of the cinema in Tajikistan was associated with the State Tajikfilm Studio from its foundation up to 1990s.
The Tajikfilm studio was founded on the premises of a small film-processing lab that initially produced newsreels assembled monthly under the title Soviet Tajikistan. The founders of this lab—Artem Shevich, Nikolay Gezulin and Vasiliy Kuzin—would go down in history as the pioneers of Tajik cinema when their memorable footage of the arrival of the first train in Dushanbe (1929) was exhibited during the proclamation of the Tajik Ssr on 16 October 1929. The following year, the Soviet Government subsidized the renovation of the lab and established Tajikkino,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Sharofat Arabova
- AsianMoviePulse
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