Toshkhoja Akromov

Toshkhoja Akromov was born on 23 May 1936 in Tashkent; his patronymic indicates that his father was called Akram. He started as an actor, studying at the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute (later the Tashkent State Institute of Arts) and graduating from its acting department in the mid-1950s.

His stage career began at the Hamza Uzbek drama theatre, where he was an actor from 1955 to 1962. In 1962 he moved to the Uzbekfilm studio, first as an assistant director and then as a director; he assisted the director on more than ten feature films.

The main part of his working life was tied to television. From 1968 to 1979 he directed at the Uzbektelefilm studio, making musical television films — concert films such as “Komiljon Otaniyozov Sings” and the musical feature “Shashmaqam”. At the Fifth All-Union Festival of Television Films, held in Tashkent in 1973, “Shashmaqam” won the Grand Prize in the music section.

From 1979 Akromov worked as a director at the Uzbek studio of documentary and popular-science films. There he made, among others, “The Art of Uzbekistan”, “Seven Beauties of the East”, “Oyqulash”, “The Warmth of the Soul in Melodies”, and the films “Oybek”, “Nabi Ganiyev”, “A Name That Became a Legend” and “Sato”. His credits also include the television film “Ballad of the White-Maned Horse”, which won a prize at the republican film festival in Andijan.

In 1983 he was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR. According to available information, he died in 2015.