Call of the Ancestors (1994)

Call of the Ancestors is a historical diptych directed by Giyos Shermuhamedov and made jointly by Uzbekistan and Algeria. Its first film, Great Turan, was the last screen work of Mahmud Esambaev; the second, Sogdiana, followed in 1995. The story is set in the sixth century where the Turkic Khaganate, Byzantium and Sasanian Persia met, and is told by the Sogdian merchant Zemarch, caught between the interests of the three powers. Bekzod Muhammadkarimov plays the twin brothers Bektuzun and Turksanf.