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Artistic Opening of the Dilogy of Vidugiris on the Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Station

Retreat Two. “The HPP was built by the whole country...” ...While browsing through some remnants of film material about the beginning of the construction of the Toktogul HPP in one of the halls of “Kyrgyzfilm,” someone noticed a “freak” crossing the bubbling Naryn on a cable. Then they spotted a camera and a battery tied to the “adrenaline junkie.” Indeed, Vidugiris was in his element, “capturing” yet another “stunning” shot... A characteristic feature of all Vidugiris's films, including

28.06.2019, 04:58

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Builders of the Naryn Cascade. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part - 16

Reflection on the Screen of the Process of Designing New Hydroelectric Power Stations Through the films shot by Vidugiris at the Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Station: “Three Answers to the Mountains” (1963), “The Overlap” (1966), “Naryn Diary” (1971), one can trace the progress of the construction of a bold and uniquely conceived hydroelectric station in the mountains. However, “production events” never concerned him for their own sake. Even such spectacular, rare, and dearly cherished by

22.06.2019, 09:15

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Film Chronicle of the Toktogul Hydroelectric Complex. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part - 15

The film is dedicated to all the builders of the Toktogul HPP. Artistic analysis of reality becomes an imaginative comprehension of the world, an authorial, lyrical discovery of it. From the plan of a misty street in the summer heat of an old village (title “+20”) to the sprawling, wide-screen view of a new multi-story city (title “+90”), everything shown and narrated acquires new depth and a new perspective. The inclusion of the "time counter" — a reminder of the depth of the future

20.06.2019, 11:49

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"Naryn Diary". Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part - 14

Meetings by the Kyrgyz Mountains ...I again refer to the films of Vidugiris as a lesson for young graduates of VGIK. Take example from such people, seek and find your path not in artificial constructs of fictional plots, but in the understanding of real life, in the documentary drafts of time. Chingiz Aitmatov

16.06.2019, 16:19

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The Opening of Cinematic Kyrgyzstan at the IX Moscow Film Festival. Part - 13

IX Moscow Festival - A Special Festival At the final press conference, the creators of the films presented at the festival, both in competition and out of competition, answered numerous questions from Soviet and foreign correspondents: R. Viktorov ("Moscow — Cassiopeia"), S. Solovyov ("One Hundred Days After Childhood"), G. Piesis ("Blow, Wind!"), operators Yu. Gantman ("Dersu Uzala") and K. Orozaliev ("Red Apple"), the screenwriter of

10.06.2019, 19:25

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IX International Film Festival in Moscow. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part - 12

The film by Tolomush Okeeva "lit up" the festival screen of the Moscow International in 1975... Above the Moscow River, a multitude of languages can be heard. Filmmakers from five continents—guests and participants of the IX International Film Festival, journalists took a stroll this Sunday along the Moscow Canal on the three-decked riverboat "Valery Chkalov." The IX International, held in Moscow from July 10 to 23, 1975, became the most representative of all previous ones:

08.06.2019, 14:12

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The Creative Friendship of Khamraev and Chokmorov. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 1970s - Early 1980s. Part 11

Spring of '74 at the Tashkent Festival On a sunny May morning, the festival participants were guests of Uzbek filmmakers and took a trip to "Uzbekfilm." Back in 1924, a small studio was opened in the building of the Sheikhantaur Madrasah. Today, "Uzbekfilm" is one of the largest studios in Soviet Central Asia, a contemporary of Soviet Uzbekistan. In 1984, it, like other Soviet Central Asian republics: Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, will celebrate its 60th

03.06.2019, 23:30

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Evaluation of Kyrgyz Art by Participants of the Tashkent Festival of 1974. Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 10

Reviews of Kyrgyz Cinema The official screening of documentary films at the Tashkent International Festival opened with "The Bridges of Duyshen" at the House of Knowledge. Kyrgyz cinematography was more fully represented a few days later when "Post" was shown there, and in the evening, at the Palace of Arts, the feature film from Frunze "Waterfall" (script by L. Dyadyuchenko, director Y. Boretzky, cinematographers A. Kim, N. Borbiyev, starring Ch. Duvanaev, I.

25.05.2019, 10:55

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Kyrgyz Filmmakers in the Spotlight of the Tashkent Festival. Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 9

City of Peace, City of Friendship. It was significant and symbolic that the leading filmmakers from Asia, Africa, and Latin America gathered around the "round table" in those days. It was here, in this conference hall, that the Soviet government made peaceful proposals to representatives of friendly countries. Here, in a building from whose windows one could see the majestic panorama of modern Tashkent, restored by the hands of thousands of Soviet people after a devastating disaster

20.05.2019, 15:45

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III International Film Festival of Asian and African Countries in Tashkent. Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 8

Representative Film Forum "Tashkent-74" In ancient times, the paths from Russia and India, from the Middle East and the African continent converged in the ancient Uzbek city of Tashkent. Today, in the ancient yet surprisingly young and modern Tashkent—the capital of Soviet Uzbekistan—progressive filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and many European countries gather every two years. A representative film forum! — The International Film Festival of Asian, African, and Latin

17.05.2019, 09:30

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Kyrgyz Documentary Film. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 1970s - Early 1980s. Part 7

DOCUMENT OF OUR TIME A documentary film is the conscience of cinema. Joris Ivens. In the autumn of 1972, at the Small Hall of the Funzen Cinema "Ala-Too" — "Chronicle," the film "Post" was screened, which won the Silver Dove award at the XV International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Leipzig.

20.04.2019, 10:04

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Kyrgyz Telecinema. Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 6

The World Through Play. Category of Fact Report The report (as the main defining genre characteristic of "Autoparade"), becoming the primary method of organizing facts of reality, emphasized the film's closeness to "live" broadcasts, lending it the credibility of documentary broadcasting. Uncommented Report This is primarily a "broadcast of what is happening" in episodes at the mobile shop, a film screening organized for children in one of the yurts, the

14.04.2019, 04:39

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The First Works of "Kyrgyztelefilm". Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 5

At the Intersection of Theater and Cinematography Television, whose audience is practically limitless, has its own peculiarities. It subtly yet persistently changes our perception of the surrounding world and the very fabric of our thinking. Thanks to its daily and nightly documentary and informational programs, we have begun to perceive facts as an independent artistic category... ...As if paying homage to his first profession — before graduating from the Institute of Theater, Music, and

13.04.2019, 04:39

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"Kirgyztelefilm". Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 4

TV Director. A New Profession of the 20th Century... Brushstrokes to the Portrait Dooronbek did not finish his third year at the medical institute. His "wanderings" through theaters and cinemas ended with a new assistant director appearing at the Frunze television studio — Dooronbek Sadyrbaev. The first broadcast with the call signs of Kyrgyz television aired on December 5, 1958. The television of the republic was taking its first steps: the first broadcasts, the birth of first

06.04.2019, 19:24

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Godunov — a Major Creative Victory of Minzhilkiev. Television and Cinematography of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s to Early 80s. Part 3

Visiting... Boris Godunov In the 1970s, Kyrgyz television cinema actively experimented with various genres — documentary, popular science, and feature films (there was a clear inclination towards creating feature films for children). The film about people of artistic creativity, a documentary story about a specific person, was made at "Kyrgyztelefilm" not for the first time, but the film "Sings Bulat Minzhilkiyev" deserves a separate discussion as an example of the search

03.04.2019, 05:00

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The Specifics of Documentary Television. Television and Cinema of Kyrgyzstan in the 70s - Early 80s. Part 2

Plots of Kyrgyz documentary filmmakers and their embodiment The context of a unified television program sometimes unexpectedly makes the familiar and known perceived in a new way, immensely increasing the responsibility of journalists from local TV studios. One August evening in 1977, Central Television aired the documentary "If Not Me, Then Who?" by the "Kyrgyztelefilm" studio. The next day, in a report from the information program "Time" about the solemn opening

02.04.2019, 06:41

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Essays on the Development of Television and Cinema in Kyrgyzstan in the 1970s - Early 1980s. Part 1

What is television information? The formation of the communist consciousness of Soviet people requires a steady expansion and deepening of the party's ideological influence on the masses, as well as continuous improvement of party propaganda and agitation. The solution to these tasks today largely depends on the quality of the work of mass media and propaganda, including television. The party constantly improves the work of all links of mass media and propaganda. Great attention is also

28.03.2019, 09:10

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The Path of Kyrgyz Cinema

Kyrgyz Cinema The first founding congress of the Union of Cinematographers of Kyrgyzstan opened on October 24, 1962. At that time, it had 33 members. Today, two decades later, the group of Kyrgyz cinematographers has tripled in size. The very emergence of Kyrgyz cinema is inextricably linked to significant milestones in the socialist construction in the USSR.

27.04.2018, 18:29

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Artistic Kyrgyz Films

The theme of the first feature films about Kyrgyzstan, made before the war by Uzbek ("Covered Wagon," 1927) and Russian ("Aigul," 1936) filmmakers, is the slave-like, dependent position of women and their subsequent liberation.

03.11.2014, 21:54

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Documentary Films

Before 1917, there was no film production in Kyrgyzstan. To highlight the life of the peoples of Central Asia, the "Vostokkino" association was established, and the first film stories and films about Kyrgyzstan began to be released in the late 1920s. Cinematographers from Moscow came to the republic to shoot the life of the Kyrgyz people. The founder of Soviet geographical cinema, V. Shneiderov, filmed travel films "At the Foot of Death" (1928) and "At an Altitude of

03.11.2014, 21:45

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The Formation of Kyrgyz Cinema

Until 1917, there was one cinema installation in Pishpek (now Bishkek). From the very first years of Soviet power, cinemas were built in the cities and villages of the republic.

26.02.2014, 22:17