True Noon (2009)
"Qiyami roz" (original title)

Nilufar, a girl living downtown, is about to marry a man living uptown. But one day, soldiers come and plant barbed wire to separate the two towns. The life of the people, who have thus far... See full summary »

Director:

Nosir Saidov

Writer:

Safar Haqdadov (screenplay)

Stars:

Daler Mirkhonov, Yuriy Nazarov, Nasriddin Nuriddinov

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Daler Mirkhonov
Yuriy Nazarov
Nasriddin Nuriddinov
Dilbar Salaymoni
Nasiba Sharipova
Shodi Soleh

Storyline

Nilufar, a girl living downtown, is about to marry a man living uptown. But one day, soldiers come and plant barbed wire to separate the two towns. The life of the people, who have thus far enjoyed peace, now falls into severe chaos. Students must take classes with barbed wire in the middle of the classroom, and it becomes difficult to go to the hospital. However, the biggest problem is Nilufar's wedding. Kirill, the chief of the climate observatory, tries his best to help her wedding, but then a terrible tragedy occurs.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Tajikistan

Language:

Tajik

Release Date:

5 February 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

True Noon

Company Credits

Production Co:

Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, Talko Management, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

nice drama.

One of my friend who watched this film in a film festival got this film and I happen to see it now. It is a simple and beautiful movie dealing about 'border issue'.

It's a Tajik movie from Tajikistan. It came in 2009. But the movie talks about a period around 1992 when Tajkistan got separated from USSR as a separate country. I watched the film with subtitles.

The story revolves around a girl called Nilufar in a hill-side village and her planned wedding and about a Climate observatory. The back drop is with two villages on the hills where Nilufar lives and works in the Climate observatory. Her marriage gets fixed with a guy whom she loves for long and he lives in the up-side village.

When her marriage is about to happen suddenly the army comes in and puts up a long fence between two villages saying that one side belongs to another country. And nobody can trespass the fence and if they had to cross the fence they should go to the security post 50 miles around and get permission and go other side.

Initially, the people were oblivious about this warning asking 'we were transacting between hills and down for our day to day lives without anybody's permission so far. why now ?'. But the army persists. School was at one side and the students are from another side. Hospital is caught at one side. People suffer with similar sort of problems and try to trespass the security fence by cutting it. Then the Army comes and plants land mines and barbed wire to stop people from crossing.

Now what happened to Nilufar's wedding, her mother's labour pains and to the cows of the lady etc are seen in a more practical down to earth manner.

We may not cry at the end but the movie definitely makes its impact on us. To question ourselves about what a border is and means.

The film is nicely photographed, with beautiful locations; no unnecessary music choices. It shows self-fulfilling village people; concerned about each other; friendly and caring. There is no deliberate scene to make any point. There is no heavy drama play. But still our heart is there.

I enjoyed this film thoroughly. You would also enjoy it.