Mankurt (1990 Film)
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''Mankurt'' (; ) is a 1990 Soviet film written by Mariya Urmadova and directed by Hojaguly Narliyev. The main cast were the Turkish actors and and the Turkmen actors Maya-Gozel Aymedova and Hojadurdy Narliyev.


Background

The film was partially filmed on location in
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and in
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, representing a Turkish-Soviet cooperation in filmmaking. The film is based on the fictional legend about a
mankurt Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel '' The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years''. After the novel, in the Soviet Union the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten t ...
within the novel ''
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'' (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the ''Novy Mir'' literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. The novel was incl ...
'' ("И дольше века длится день") by
Chinghiz Aitmatov Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature. Life He was born to a Kyrgyz father and Ta ...
, a philosophical tale about what can happen to people if they forget their motherland, language, and history. The Turkic legend invented by Aitmatov for the novel conceives of a cruel way of making ''
mankurt Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel '' The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years''. After the novel, in the Soviet Union the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten t ...
s'' of captives in the hopes that they will forget everything but basic activities, rendering them servile minions to '' Zunghar'' conquerors.


Synopsis

The film is about a Turkmen who defended his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he does not recognize his mother and kills her when she attempts to return his memories.


Cast

* Maya-Gozel Aimedova * Nurberdi Allaberdiyev * Maysa Almazova * * * * Altyn Hojayeva * Hommat Myllyk * * Tahyr Narliyev * Mergen Niyazov * Maya Nuryagdiyeva * Sapar Odayev *


See also

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Mankurt Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel '' The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years''. After the novel, in the Soviet Union the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten t ...
*
Pitchcapping Pitchcapping is a form of torture which involves pouring hot pitch or tar (mainly used at the time for water-proofing seams in the sides of ships and boats) into a conical paper cap and forcing it onto an individual's head, which is then allo ...


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* 1990 films 1990s Russian films 1990s Russian-language films Soviet-era Turkmenistan films Films directed by Khodzha Kuli Narliyev Turkish multilingual films Soviet multilingual films 1990s Turkish-language films 1990 multilingual films Turkish drama films Soviet drama films Russian-language drama films Turkmenistan drama films {{1990s-USSR-film-stub