Giyas Shermukhamedov
Uzbek film director and screenwriter who made many films at Uzbekfilm and in 1992 founded the studio Merosfilm.
- Occupation:
- Director, Writer, Film director
- Born:
- 1935
- Birthplace:
- Tashkent
Biography
Giyas Shermukhamedov is a director and screenwriter. According to one biographical dictionary he was born in 1935 in Tashkent. In 1958 he graduated from the directing faculty of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute and worked at the Hamza academic theatre.
In the 1950s and 1960s he was chief director of the newly created Uzbek television. He then made more than sixteen feature films at Uzbekfilm and prepared items for the satirical newsreel «Nashtar» (its chief director in 1970–1973). His films include «The Diamond Belt» (1986).
After the USSR collapsed, when Uzbekfilm was almost idle, he founded his own studio Merosfilm («Heritage») in 1992. With Algerian partners it produced the duology «Call of the Ancestors» («Great Turan» and «Sogdiana», 1995); Shermukhamedov directed it and co-wrote the script with Dmitry Vasiliu.
Education
- State Institute of Arts and Culture of UzbekistanUniversity · Tashkent · 1958
Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| The Circle | 1966 |
| The Age of Anxieties | 1972 |
| Overcome Yourself | 1975 |
| Po sledu rezvogo konya | 1981 |
| In Private | 1984 |
| Dolgoe ekho v gorakh | 1985 |
| The Diamond Belt | 1986 |
| Call of the Ancestors | 1994 |
| Velikiy Turan | 1994 |
| Call of the Ancestors: Sogdiana | 1995 |
| Matonat | 2013 |