Ali Khamraev
Ali KHAMRAEV (1937, Uzbekistan) is an Uzbek actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Khamraev graduated in 1961 from the VGIK in Moscow. He has made more than 30 documentary films and more than 20 feature films, for which he has received numerous titles and awards, including the title Meritorious Artist of Uzbekistan. He is best known for his films Yor-yor (1964), The Seventh Bullet (1972), The Bodyguard (1979) and Vuodillik kelin (1984).
Filmography
(selection) Yor-Yor (1964), Без страха/Fearless (1971), Yettinchi oʻq/The Seventh Bullet (1972), Man Follows the Birds (1976), Триптих/Triptych (1977), Телохранитель/The Bodyguard (1979), Жаркое лето в Кабуле/A Hot Summer in Kabul (1983), Vuodillik kelin/A Bride from Vuodil (1984), Я тебя помню/I Remember You (1985), Сад желаний/The Garden of Desires (1988), Bo Ba Bu (1998), Место под солнцем/A Place under the Sun (2004), Артисты/The Artists (2007), Passion of Igor Savitsky (2015, doc), The Lilac Wind of Parajanov (2024)
Ali Khamraev op IFFR
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The Lilac Wind of Paradjanov
Ali Khamraev | 75' | Armenia | World premiere
A collective labour of love paying homage to one of cinema’s masters: Sergei Parajanov. -
Bo Ba Bu
Ali Khamraev | 83' | France | -
Two barbarians in the desert find a stranded white woman and regard her as their property. A strange and exotic parable that presents a tragic… -
The Seventh Bullet
Ali Khamraev | 84' | USSR | None
One of the many Red Westerns directly inspired – even in the title – by the hugely popular American classic The Magnificent Seven (1960). Made…