Abdullajon/Абдуллажон | |
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Poster in Russian and English
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Directed by | Zulfiqor Musoqov |
Written by | Zulfiqor Musoqov R. Muhammadjonov |
Starring | Rajab Adashev Toʻti Yusupova Toʻychi Oripov Hojiakbar Nurmatov |
Music by | Mirhalil Mahmudov |
Cinematography | Talʼat Mansurov Vyacheslav Shin |
Edited by | Roziya Merganboyeva |
Distributed by | Uzbekfilm |
Release date
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1991 |
Running time
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89 minutes |
Country | Uzbekistan |
Language | Uzbek and Russian |
Abdullajon or Abdulladzhan, ili posvyashchaetsya Stivenu Spilbergu (transliteration of the Russian title of the film meaning "Abdullajon or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg") is a 1991 Uzbek science fiction comedy film directed by Zulfiqor Musoqov.Abdullajon is the first Uzbek science fiction film and is considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest Uzbek film made in post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
The film contains references to science fiction films of Steven Spielberg. The story is told in the first person by a security guard as a letter to Steven Spielberg in broken, but funny Russian. Most of the characters in the film speak in Uzbek.
The film is narrated in the first person through the eyes of Sotiboldi, a security guard at a store in the village, as a letter to "Steven aka (Brother) Spielberg" in broken, but funny Russian. The film tells the story of an alien whose spaceship crashes in an Uzbek kolhoz. Bozorboy, a resident of the village, discovers the alien while looking for his lost cow. In his letter to Spielberg, Sotiboldi writes that the spaceship that crashed in Uzbekistan, "unlike the beautiful spaceship with lights in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, looks like a pot, but is real."
The alien is a white boy who speaks many languages and can perform miracles such as transporting people and objects through space and making it rain at will. Bozorboy names the alien Abdullajon after his grandfather and adopts the alien as his seventh child. The villagers think that Abdullajon is an illegitimate child of Bozorboy from his Russian wife somewhere.
Meanwhile, Russian scientists in Moscow predict that an alien will land in the village and ask the head of the kolkhoz to tell them immediately if anyone comes across the alien.
In the village, Bozorboy and Abdullajon search the gadget that would allow Abdullajon to call for help. Bozorboy finds the gadget first and hides it from Abdullajon. Later the gadget disappears from the place where Bozorboy hid it.