Brothers
(Ifazat)
by Bakhtiar Khudoynazarov
Tajikistan
Director: Bakhtiar Khudoynazarov
Script: B. Khudoynazarov, L. Machkamow
Cinematographer: Georgi Dsalajew
Editing: Tatjana Malzewa
Sound: Rustam Achadow
Music: Achmad Bakejew
Cast: Timur Tursunow, Firus Sabaliew, N. Arifowa, I. Tabarowa, R. Kurbanow, B. Bekmurodow
Production: Tadjikfilm, Soyouzfilm
Year: 1991
Screening: 1995
35 mm, B & W, 100 min,
OV Tajik with French Subtitles
Seventeen-year-old Farah and seven-year-old Little Fatsy are two brothers living in a small Tajik town, brought up by their grandmother since their parents separated. They decide to get to their father living in a faraway city where he works as a medical doctor in a sanatorium. To do so, they take an astonishing train through Tajikistan across hills and mountains, cities and villages, up to the Afghan boarder. After a highly adventurous trip, they finally meet their father…
Brothers is B. Khudoynazarov’s debut film shot when he was only twenty-five. It already bears the qualities of many great films: a sense of space, the art of revealing the characters, a continuity of the plot, a black and white perfect image… There are no professional actors and the dialogue is borrowed from daily life.