Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg (1992) [N/A]
Release Date:
July 13, 1992
Original Title:
Абдуллажон, ёки Стевен Спиелбергга багʻишланади
Alternate Titles:
Abdullajon, yoki Steven Spielbergga bagʻishlanadi
U.F.O. Boy Abdulladzhan
Абдулладжан, или Посвящается Стивену Спилбергу
Genres:
Comedy | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Vatan
Production Countries:
Soviet Union
Ratings / Certifications:
RU: 12+
Runtime: 89
Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplified radiance so bright and so overexposed that it no longer looks like the skies of sunny Tashkent, but a disturbing, borderless luminosity to match the flat tonal range of Stalker’s “Zone.” Our Uzbek boys are nowhere in particular; this is a broader domain than anything international.