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Nigina Sayfullaeva was born on 16 April 1985 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. She is a director and writer, known for Name Me (2014), Vernost (2019) and Tag Along (2010).- Actor
- Music Department
Abdu Rozik was born on 3 September 2003 in Gishdarva, Panjakent District, Tajikistan. He is an actor, known for Abdu Rozik: Chota Bhaijaan (2022), Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (2008) and Entertainment Ki Raat Housefull (2023).- Director
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Born in Tajikistan during the Soviet Union period, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov worked for Tadjikfilm Studios, TV and radio, as a journalist or assistant director, from 1982 to 1984. He then studied at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), in Igor Talankin's class, where he directed two short films ("Shutniki" aka "Jokers" in 1986, "Verish Nje Verish" aka "Believe It Or Not" in 1988) and a documentary ("Sobachija Okhota" aka "Hunting with Dogs" in 1987). In 1991, two years after he graduated, he directed and co-wrote his first feature film The Little Brother (1991) and won several awards in International film festivals. He eventually directed his second film Odds and Evens (1993), co-produced by many different countries (especially Germany since he started to live and work in Berlin in 1993) and for which he collaborated again with Leonid Makhkamov for the scenario. He won a prestigious Silver Lion in Venice for this film.
He benefited from a bigger budget for his next film, Luna Papa (1999), another international co-production, co-written with Georgian filmmaker 'Irakli Kvirikadze' and starring Russian rising star Chulpan Khamatova, German famous actor Moritz Bleibtreu and Tajik actor Ato Mukhamedzhanov (the latter's last movie). Khudojnazarov created a Kusturica-alike poetic atmosphere for which the crew built an entire village in a desert of Central Asia. It became his most internationally famous movie and received numerous awards, including a Nika Award for best director (main Russian national award). The music composed by Daler Nazarov also became an appreciated soundtrack.
He then directed Shik (2003), also an international co-production, from a scenario by Oleg Antonov and with Daler Nazarov for the music again. His next film will be a Russian production, _Tanker Tango (2005)_.- Producer
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Moses Znaimer was born in Kulab, Tajikistan (former Soviet Republic) in 1942. During the height of the Second World War, his family fled to Shanghai, and eventually went on to end up settling in Montréal. He was educated at McGill University in Montréal, receiving a BA in philosophy and politics. He received an MA in government from Harvard University.
After graduation he accepted a job at the CBC, directing, producing, and hosting several shows from 1965 to 1969. Znaimer quit the CBC in 1969, and launched into private broadcasting. At that time all the VHF licenses in Toronto had been taken, so he founded the city's first UHF channel, CITY, Channel 79 (later 57), in 1972. The unique programming of CITY has been Znaimer's primary contribution to the world of broadcasting, and its influence has now been felt worldwide.
The success of CITY prompted Toronto media conglomerate CHUM to purchase the station in 1981. With a much larger budget, Znaimer went on to found several other television stations starting with MuchMusic in 1984, Canada's first 24-hour music station. The idea was copied with a French-language station, MusiquePlus, based in Montréal, in 1986. Since the 1980s Znaimer has been instrumental in shaping the face of Canadian television, launching or helping to direct well over two dozen television stations in Canada and many other parts of the world. His unique style of broadcasting, the "Participatory, Interactive, Storefront, Studioless, Television Operating System", sets all CHUM-CITY stations apart from more traditional media sources. It has always been Znaimer's goal to create television that reflects those who watch it, and every station goes to great lengths to be able to include as many of the different cultural, ethnic, and diverse programs and personalities found in Toronto and all over Canada as possible.- Mikhail Filipchuk was born on 18 September 1988 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for The Thief (1997), Sympathy Seeker (1997) and Krestonosets-2 (1997).
- Viktor Anatol'yevich But was born on 13 January 1967 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union [now Republic of Tajikistan]. He has been married to Alla Vladimirovna But since 1992. They have one child.
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- Soundtrack
Oleg Skripka was born on 24 May 1964 in Sovetabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [Khujand, Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (2001), Rhino (2021) and Russendisko (2012).- Igor Yankovskiy was born on 29 April 1951 in Leninabad, Tajikistan, USSR. He is an actor, known for Zhenatyy kholostyak (1982), Duraki umirayut po pyatnitsam (1990) and Goryachaya tochka (1998).
- Aleksandr Bargman was born on 20 June 1970 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Trotsky (2017), Antonina obernulas (2008) and The Oath (2020).
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Davlat Khudonazarov, listed among the 100 best Asian filmmakers.
Davlat Khudonazarov is a Tajik filmmaker, public figure and human rights activist. He was born in Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), Tajikistan on March 13, 1944.
Khudonazarov was a prominent filmmaker when he was elected People''s Deputy from Tajikistan to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988. He was elected as chairman of the USSR Union of Cinematographers in 1989.
He was the chief peace-negotiator between the army and the demonstrators in the February 1990 Dushanbe riots. He ran against Rahmon Nabiyev in the presidential elections in November 1991. Khudonazarov received 35% of the popular vote.
He worked as a peacemaker during the Tajik civil war (1992 - 1996). In 1994-95 he was Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2005.- Actor
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Yunus Yusupov was born on 9 August 1949 in Gissar, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Hisor, Tajikistan]. He is an actor and director, known for Prestupnik i advokaty (1981), Zalozhnik (1984) and Mest proroka (1993).- Actor
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Ato Mukhamedzhanov was born on 2 September 1940 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Bodyguard (1979), The Blessed Bukhara (1991) and Opalyonnye Kandagarom (1989). He died on 9 September 2002 in Isafara, Tajikistan.- Actress
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Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (née Khamrayeva), known professionally as simply Manizha, is a Russian-Tajik singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 2003 as a child singer, Manizha went on to perform with the music groups Ru.Kola, Assai, and Krip De Shin, before later pursuing a solo career. She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman" where she placed 9th.- Timur Zulfikarov was born on 17 August 1936 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is a writer, known for Belyy royal (1969), Mirazhi lyubvi (1987) and Chelovek ukhodit za ptitsami (1976).
- Khashim Gadoyev was born on 10 May 1937 in Kulyab, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Kulob, Kulob district, Khatlon Province, Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980), Rustam and Suhrab (1972) and La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990).
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Vladimir Shubarin was born on 23 December 1934 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He was an actor, known for Heavenly Swallows (1976), Krik delfina (1987) and Opasnye gastroli (1969). He died on 16 April 2002 in Moscow, Russia.- Mukadas Makhmudov was born on 20 February 1926 in Dyushambe, Tajik ASSR, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. She was a director, known for Kapkan dlya shakalov (1985), Povar i pevitsa (1978) and Belyy royal (1969). She died on 18 April 1991.
- Samad Mansurov was born on 10 October 1968 in Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. He is an actor, known for Kandagar (2010), Sindrom (2023) and Law of the Lawless (2002).
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- Music Department
Daler Nazarov was born on 8 September 1959 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is a composer and actor, known for Shik (2003), Sex & Philosophy (2005) and Kumir (1988).- Director
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Born in 1956 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Scriptwriter and director. In 1979 he graduated from the history faculty of the Tajik State University. In 1989 he graduated from the faculty of film and television directing of VGIK, Moscow. Since 1990 he has been the art director of the Haoma studio. He made his first feature film, 'Stranger's Game' in 1991. He also directs documentaries. Now lives and works in Moscow.- Writer
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Mumin Shakirov was born in Dushanbe. He worked several years at the Tajik Film Studio. In 1989 he graduated from the All-Union (now Russian) State Institute of Cinematography (RSIC), the Directing Department.
In 1994 Mumin Shakirov became involved in journalism. From 1994 to 1997 he worked at the Literaturnaya gazeta ("Literary Gazette") and Novaya gazeta ("New Gazette") covering the civil wars in Tajikistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Abkhazia and the former Yugoslavia. In 1994 he started his collaboration with Radio Liberty and from 1998 to 2012 he worked as their special correspondent.
He wrote and directed the mini-series "Eastern Express" and the "Special Reportage" series: «Hot Spots of the Former Empire", "Is it Easy to be a Russian in the Neighbouring Countries and the Baltics" and the "Formula of Cinema". He authored several books "Drug Trafficking in Russia" (1998) and "A Million for a Woman" (2006).
He participated in the film festivals "Zolotoi dyuk" (Golden Duke), "Stalker" (Stalker), "Kinotavr" (Kinotaur), "Zakon & obshestvo" (Law & Society) , "Poslanie cheloveku" (Message to Man) (2005) and the Moscow International Film Festival.
In 2013 he made a controversial documentary "Holocaust - is it a wallpaper paste?" The film premiered on 22 June 2013 at the October cinema within the framework of the Moscow International Film Festival 2013 (main competition, the documentary section). This film was shown at various film forums, such as the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Repertuar festiwalu Sputnik (Satellite over Poland),(one of the viewings was arranged at the Ida Kaminsky Jewish Cinema for the "children of Holocaust" - the descendants of those who perished in concentration camps during World War II, Stalker, Festival of Tolerance, Zagreb Jewish Film Festival, International Film Festival "Jewish Motifs" in Warsaw, International Film Festival "INPUT 2014" in Helsinki. In January 2014 the film was released in Belarus.
On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the public became interested again in the documentary "Holocaust - is it a wallpaper paste?" In October 2014 the film was included in the 7th Festival of Russian Documentaries in New York as part of the special programme dedicated to Holocaust. The film was also shown at the International Film Festival "Flahertiana" in the city of Perm, where the film received the award for the best script. Throughout 2014, the film was shown in many Russian cities as part of the visiting Stalker Film Festival - a festival dedicated to human rights: Krasnoyarsk, Kaliningrad, Syktyvkar, Kursk, Voronezh, Penza, Mozhaisk, Izhevsk, Vologda, and Petrozavodsk.
On 27 January 2015 - on the Holocaust Memorial Day, the film was shown in the city of Ivanovo. After the viewing of the documentary, the audience had a discussion with Mumin Shakirov. Mumin Shakirov lives and works in Moscow.- Writer
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Vladimir Voinovich was born on 26 September 1932 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He was a writer and actor, known for Shapka (1990), Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994) and Dva tovarishcha (2001). He was married to Valentina Vasilievna Boltushkina, Svetlana Yakovlevna Kolesnichenko and Irina Danilovna Braude. He died on 27 July 2018 in Moscow, Russia.- Firuz Bakhor was born on 19 November 1942 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, USSR. He is a composer, known for Kto poedet v Truskavets (1977), Segodnya i vsegda (1982) and Pozyvnye 'Vershina' (1984).
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Takhir Sabirov was born on 21 December 1929 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He was an actor and director, known for Izmena (1967), Margi sudkhur (1967) and I eshchyo odna noch Shakherazady (1985). He was married to Sobira Aminova and Rano Mavlyanova. He died on 31 May 2002 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.- Gurmindzh Zavkibekov was born on 1 May 1929 in Shudzhand, Tajik ASSR, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. He was an actor, known for Operatsiya 'Kobra' (1960), Chelovek menyaet kozhu (1960) and Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980). He died on 21 October 2003.
- Sairam Isayeva was born on 24 November 1942 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. She is an actress, known for Perevorot po instruktyi 107 (1983), Odna sredi lyudey (1974) and Vostochnaya plutovka (1989).
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Solomon Volkov was born on 17 April 1944 in Tajikistan. He is a writer, known for Testimony (1987), Khachaturian (2003) and The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997).- Aleksandr Dik was born on 1 December 1949 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Opasnyy povorot (1972), Zapiski Pikvikskogo kluba (1972) and Father Sergius (1979).
- Actor
- Writer
Henri Weber was born on 24 June 1944 in Leninabad, Tajikistan, USSR. He was an actor and writer, known for Les jours venus (2014), Générations 68 (2008) and À mort la mort! (1999). He was married to Fabienne Servan-Schreiber. He died on 26 April 2020 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France.- Alisher Khodzhayev was born on 14 January 1949 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Kapkan dlya shakalov (1985), Povar i pevitsa (1978) and Dorogi byvayut raznyye (1971).
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- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Abdusalom Rakhimov was born on 9 November 1917 in Khodzhent, Khidzhent uyezd, Samarkand Oblast, Russia [now Khujand, Sughd Region, Tajikistan]. He was an actor and director, known for Pod peplom ogon (1968), Zumrad (1962) and Na perevale ne strelyat! (1983). He died on 5 January 1999.- Writer
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Jamshed Usmonov was born in Asht, Tajikistan. After graduating from the Arts Institute, he started producing, writing and directing documentaries as well as animation and fiction movies. In 1991, he started shooting "The Well", a medium-length film that he managed to complete only in 2000, after the end of the civil war. Usmanov's first feature dates from 1998: The Flight of the Bee (1998) (The Flight of the Bee), but the director gained international recognition only four years later with Fararishtay kifti rost (2002) (Angel on the Right), a colorful fable set in his native Asht, and with Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon (2006) (To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die), the dark portrait of a young married man with sexual problems. His last film to date, My Wife's Romance (2011), is a film noir about a man who goes missing and the consequences it involves. Also in France, he appeared as an actor embodying a foreign art film director produced by the hero of Mia Hansen-Løve's sensitive Father of My Children (2009) Grégoire Canvel.)- Yuri Astafyev was born on 12 April 1949 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He was an actor, known for V polose priboya (1990), Ishchu druga zhizni (1987) and Dvoe i odna (1988). He died on 4 November 1990 in Yalta, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
- Mekhrangiz Gasanova was born on 11 June 1954 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. She is an actress, known for Mirazhi lyubvi (1987), Prestupnik i advokaty (1981) and Afghan Breakdown (1992).
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Born in Dushanbe, Tadzhik SSR, USSR (now in Tajikistan), he is a Tajik-Polish screenwriter, director and cinematographer, best known for creating the long-running sitcom Swiat wedlug Kiepskich (1999). He graduated a film operator course at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography. Khamidov's father Obid ran a movie production company in Tajikistan for many years. He has two brothers: Olim, a film expert, and Tolib, a director. He directed 14 movies in Tajikistan before moving to Poland in 1994. In 1999 he created Swiat wedlug Kiepskich, a sitcom that soon became a hit and only finished its run in 2022. He later moved on to work on serialized pseudo-documentaries, such as Trudne sprawy (2011) and Dlaczego ja? (2010). In 2003 he became a citizen of Poland. He has a son, Komil - who is a professional chess player, a professional poker player, and a rapper - and a daughter, Malika. He lives in Wroclaw.- Dilbar Umarova was born on 26 August 1949 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. She is an actress, known for Bol lyubvi (1989), Legend of Rustam (1971) and I eshchyo odna noch Shakherazady (1985).
- Igor Tiltikov was born on 9 August 1950 in Kurgan-Tyube, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Qurghonteppa, Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Pokhishchenie Evropy (1992), Chudo v krayu zabuttya (1991) and Kuryer na Vostok (1991).
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- Actor
Tolibhon Shakhidi was born on 13 March 1946 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is a composer and actor, known for Two-Legged Horse (2008), Kapkan dlya shakalov (1985) and Prestupnik i advokaty (1981).- Director
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- Writer
Oleg Tulayev was born on 30 March 1949 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He was a director and actor, known for Moya lubov-revolutsiya (1981), Viltoarea (1992) and Chest imeyu (1988). He died on 1 June 2003 in Chisinau, Moldova.- Director
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- Actress
Margarita Kasymova was born on 10 April 1938 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. She is a director and writer, known for Malenkiy boyets (1998), Zorka venera (2000) and Syn za ottsa... (1995).- Tufa Fazylova was born on 25 April 1917 in Kanibadam, Fergana Oblast, Russia [now Konibodom, Tajikistan]. She was an actress, known for Zumrad (1962), Budte moim muzhem (1981) and Segodnya i vsegda (1982). She died on 3 February 1985 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan].
- Ilkhomdzhon Abdurakhmonov was born on 17 January 2005 in Tadzhik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. He is an actor, known for Kurery (2024) and Nachat snachala (2024).
- Rano Khamrayeva was born on 28 March 1941 in Garm, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Gharm, Tajikistan]. She is an actress, known for Ogonok v gorakh (1958), Delighted by You (1958) and Kak stat schastlivym (1986).
- Sokrat Abdukadyrov was born on 10 August 1947 in Tajikistan. He was an actor, known for Pervaya lyubov Nasreddina (1978), Zvezda i smert Khoakina Murety (1983) and Rasstavaniya (1983). He died on 12 May 2023 in Paris, France.
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Gennadi Aleksandrov was born on 9 April 1937 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]. He is a composer and director, known for Malenkiy mstitel (1992), Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988) and Ya ey nravlyus (1986).- Director
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Kamil Yarmatov was born on 2 May 1903 in Kanibadam, Fergana Oblast, Russian Empire [now Konibodom, Konibodom District, Sughd Region, Tajikistan]. He was a director and actor, known for Alisher Navoy (1948), Dalyokie blizkie gody (1976) and Poema dvukh serdets (1968). He died on 24 November 1978 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Mokhsira Shomakhmudova was born on 4 December 1969 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, USSR. She is an actress, known for Noktyurn dlya barabana i mototsikla (1994).
- Dilshod Nazarov is a Tajik track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw.
He has represented his country at the Olympic Games on four occasions (in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016), winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, the first gold medal for Tajikistan in the history of the Olympic Games.
He has competed seven times at the World Championships in Athletics (2005 to 2017), but has been most successful at regional competitions: he won medals (5 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) at eight Asian Athletics Championships and was the hammer champion at the Asian Games in 2006, 2010 and 2014. He won his first global medal (a silver) in 2010 at the IAAF Continental Cup.
His personal best for the event is 80.71 meters, set in 2013. - Sharafbonu Tyrdyyeva was born in 1938 in Tadzhik SSR, USSR [now Tajikistan]. She was an actress, known for Leili i Medzhnun (1959). She died in 2000.
- Evgeniy Valts was born on 12 November 1981 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, USSR. He is an actor, known for The Challenge (2023), Khitrovka. The Sign of Four (2023) and Detektor (2023).