Children of the Pamirs
(Deti pamira)
by Vladimir Motyl
Tajikistan
Script: M. Mirchakar, Inna Filimonova
Cineamtographer: Boris Seredin
Art Director: Iliabaev
Music: K. Khatchatourian
Cast: Valeri Lebedev, Igor Nicheradze, Oleg Tulajev, B. Mirsobekov, Nina Sandalova
Production: Tadjikfilm
Distribution:
Arkéion Films
12, rue de Chartres
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Tel: 0033 1.46.43.23.59
Fax: 0033 1.46.43.23.50
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 1963
35 mm, Colour, 76 min,
OV Russian
French Electronic Subtitles
Unreleased
In this remote hamlet of the Pamir mountains "roof of the world", the Soviet government was only established in 1923. Everyone has his own understanding of such government. For the children, it means school, the very first one created in the place, and the young headmaster who initiates them to a new life, a marvellous world ignored unt til then, a world of knowledge, honesty and justice…
This adaptation of M. Mirchakar's poem Lenine in the Pamir merges with great originality elements of silent movies and talkies. Drawings made of chalk, animation sequences, acting of the young children, Khatchaturian's music, everything contributes to make this film which also depicts the revolution in Tajikistan, one of the most essential work of Tajik cinema of that time.