Mankurt (1990)
Country
USSR, Turkey, Libya
Production
Turkmenfilm, Tugra Film-Yilmas Duru, People's Committee on Cinematography of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya), Soyuzkinoservice
Director
Khojakuli Narliev
Screenwriter
Maria Urmatova
Cinematographers
Nurtai Borbiev, Nikolai Dvigubsky
Composer
Rejep Rejepov
Production Director
Batyr Bekmuradov
Actors
Taryk Tardzhan, Maya (Maya-Gozel) Aymedova, Yilmaz Duru, Khodjadurdy Narliev, Maysa Almazova, Takhyr Narliev, Eduard Rejepov, S. Abukshem, Altyn Khodzhaeva, Kerim Annanov, Khommat Mullyk, Pirkuli Atayev, Mergen Niyazov, Aman Odayev, Nurberdy Allaberdyev, Maya Nuryagdyeva, Berdy Ashirov, Baba Annanov, Geldy Seidiev, Annaseid Annamuradov, Sapar Nurnazarov, Sapar (Saparmurad) Odayev, Akylbek Murataliev, Lidiya Kotovshchikova
Based on Chingiz Aitmatov's novel "And the Day Lasts Longer Than a Hundred Years."
A philosophical parable about a creature deprived of the memory of its parents, its mother, deprived of shame, conscience, and honor, transformed into a beast in human form.
...The cavalry rushes. Warriors in pointed leather helmets gallop with whoops, raising clouds of dust. During a brutal enemy raid on a peaceful village, the film's hero is captured, becomes a man without memory, and – in terrible ignorance – kills his mother...