Section: Special: Fraternal Kiss

Angelochek, sdelaj radost

Little Angel, Make Me Happy

Usman Saparov
Turkmenistan, Russia, 1993, 88 Min

The son of an ethnic German family in Uzbekistan watches on as his parents are deported by armed soldiers. Left to care for himself the twelve-year-old escapes ending up in a home and subsequently goes on the run in Usman Saparov's reflection on the contradictions between the then dominant socialist ideology and preservation of national traditions.

Usman Saparov

During the Second World War various ethnic groups were the targets of mass deportations carried out at horrifying human cost by the Soviet regime. Amongst these were the German minority in Turkmenistan, a group who migrated to the region at the end of the 19th century. Saparov and screenwriter Lyudmila Papilova's sensitively told drama represents a stand against Stalin's policy of ethnic homogenisation: When asked to elaborate upon what drew her to the issue, Papilova responded that “back then they divided territories into republics when there was no apparent necessity. It would have been better to let everybody live in one country, rather than draw distinctions between Turkmen, Russians and Germans. I remember reading a novel about the foundation of a Ministry of Love, created with the intention of destroying love, and this was something similar: a single entity was created in order to wipe out its constituent parts”. SwS

Filmformat
Blu-Ray | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Liudmila Papilova, Usman Saparov
Kamera
Vladimir Shinkin
Ton
Nella Bazarova, Yuri Reinbach
Schnitt
A. Niyazova, L. Butuzov
Ausstattung
Orazmurad Annakhalov
Musik
Mitia Rybnikov
Darsteller
Vova Frank, Tatjana Schreiber, Sasha Schreiber, Agamurad Djanmuhamedov
Produktion
Turmenian Centre of Cinema and Television for Children, Youth and Family
Co-Produktion
Turkmenisches Centrum für Kinderfilme
Kontakt
Usman Saparov
usaparov@list.ru
Usman Saparov

Usman Saparov - born in 1938 in Pashan-Ali, Turkmenistan. Director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He studied at the VGIK in Moscow and worked as cinematographer at Turkmenfilm Studio. His feature debut as director MUZHSKOE VOSPITANIE received the USSR Sate Prize in 1984. And he was named People's artist of Turkmenistan 1994.

Movies
VERBLIUZHONOK (1979, short)
MUZHSKOE VOSPITANIE (1983)
BARABASHKA (2002)
V POISKAKH LEBEDIA (2014, doc)