Rustam Khamdamov

Rustam Khamdamov

81 (1944-05-24)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]

Rustam Usmanovich Khamdamov (Russian: Руста́м Усма́нович Хамда́мов, born 24 May 1944 in Tashkent) is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist. His film Anna Karamazoff (1991) was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

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Vocal Parallels 2006 (6.1)

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova, Araksiia Davtian, Bibigul’ Tulegenova, and the late Erik Salim-Meriuert (Kurmangaliev), a fantastic countertenor.
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Anna Karamazoff 1991 (4.6)

This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
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The Bottomless Bag 2017 (5)

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.