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Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

, 19 May 1937) is an Uzbek

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Pakistan, Mongolia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China...

 director who is best known in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 for his work in the 1970s.

He studied at State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

His films include The Bodyguard and The Seventh Bullet

The Seventh Bullet

The Seventh Bullet is a Soviet Ostern film of 1972 directed by Ali Khamraev.-Plot:In the same tradition as The White Sun of the Desert and The Bodyguard, The Seventh Bullet is set after the Russian Civil War which ended in the 1920s when Soviet power established itself in Central Asia in the wake...

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He has won a number of accolades at home, including being a laureate, and "Honoured Art Worker" of the Uzbek

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 republic.

He is still working today, and his most recent film Bo Ba Bu toured many European festivals.

Filmography

• 1972: The Seventh Bullet
  The Seventh Bullet
  The Seventh Bullet is a Soviet Ostern film of 1972 directed by Ali Khamraev.-Plot:In the same tradition as The White Sun of the Desert and The Bodyguard, The Seventh Bullet is set after the Russian Civil War which ended in the 1920s when Soviet power established itself in Central Asia in the wake...
  
  
• 1979: The Bodyguard
• 1983: Zharkoye Leto v Kabule
• 1985: Ya Tebya Pomnyu
• 1988: Sad Zhelaniy
• 1998: Bo Ba Bu