Daughter-In-Law

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Nevestka (English: Daughter-In-Law, Turkmen: Gelin) is a 1972 Turkmenistani film directed by Khodzha Kuli Narliyev, starring Maya-Gozel Aimedova, Aynabat Amanliyeva, and Baba Annanov. The film is about a young woman who loses her husband during the World War II. Despite her family's advice to re-marry, she stays with her lonely father-in-law in the desert, going about the daily work, cherishing her memories and hopes that one day her husband might come home.

Nevestka
Directed byKhodzha Kuli Narliyev
Written byKhodzha Durdy Narliyev, Khodzha Kuli Narliyev
CinematographyAnatoliy Ivanov
Music byRedzhep Redzhepov
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryTurkmen SSR

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Reception

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Nevestka has been called "the film that put Turkmen film on the map".[1] Mira Liehm and Antonín J. Liehm note its "strong cinematic feeling for local settings".[2] Michael Rouland calls it a "representation of Turkmen life at the edge of the desert during World War Two", writing that it "engages a rich genre in Soviet film: the tragedy of lives left on the home front while loved ones sacrificed their lives on the battlefront. Bridging the vast territorial and cultural spaces of the Soviet Union, the sacrifice of war and its suffering was a common theme of Soviet film".[3]

Narliyev and Aimedova were both awarded a USSR State Prize for their roles as director and lead actress in the film.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Beumers, Birgit (2009). A History of Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-84520-215-6.
  2. ^ Liehm, Mira; Liehm, Antonín J. (1977). The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-520-03157-9.
  3. ^ "Hodzhakuli Narliev – Nevestka AKA Daughter in Law (1972)". Worldscinema.org. 3 February 2012. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  4. ^ Rollberg, Peter (2016-07-20). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 34, 520. ISBN 978-1-4422-6842-5.
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