Maysara's Tricks

Ahmad Donish, a scholar and educator, an outstanding Tajik writer and thinker of the 19th century, envoy of the Bukhara Emirate to Russia, who did much to bring the Russian and Tajik peoples closer together and to introduce progressive democratic ideas to Central Asia—the authors dedicate this film to him.

Turkestan, 1919. The prominent Bolshevik Valerian Kuybyshev is appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. The film tells the story of the establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia.

A young journalism student from Moscow, Andrei, arrives in Tashkent, where he falls in love with both the city and its people. He is able to meet new friends and experience his first love, which leads him to decide to stay in Tashkent forever.

The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...

A dying woman’s wish sends her son on a train journey from the steppes of Uzbekistan to the Russian hinterland in search of his father’s grave. Just as the traveler’s home city of Samarkand is situated on the border between East and West, Khamraev balances his film on the edge of two cultures, evoking the soul of Russia and the crumbling beauty of what was once the Silk Road.

Rano is a matchmaker; trying to find a bride for a forty-year-old bachelor. She does not even dare to think about the fact that she can love herself, as this is contrary to tradition, because she is a widow.

In Women’s Paradise, a college professor and writer is separated from his wife after committing adultery and discovers a women’s paradise where his lover, a female student, and his wife are living happily together. Could this truly be paradise or just the projection of a male fantasy?

Follows three friends from different social backgrounds who grew up together. The room with toys, the view from the window of the fountain of one of them was a model of life well-being and happiness for the other. Having become an adult and having met love, he tells his beloved about this apartment, promises her the happiness he has dreamed of since childhood and... commits meanness.

Juma Saidov fault of the rich Appanbay got to prison. Years later he returned to his native place and took part in the fight against robber bands. Suddenly it became clear that the leader of the gang Hudayberdi his son, born while Juma was in prison, and brought up Appanbay.

The events of the film take place in the 50s in one of the most beautiful cities in the world -blessed Bukhara. This is a story about street poets living in abandoned cemeteries, in mosques, on the roofs of houses.

Journalist Murad Yakubov wrote a feuilleton about the bribe-taker and slanderer Nureyev, using materials from the party commission. But later, after studying other materials, the hero came to the conclusion that he had slandered a man who was trying to expose the mafia led by the regional committee secretary Nazirov.

Surgeon Alim Sabirov, fearing for the patient’s life, offers his services to Valieva, a protégé of the head of the hospital, who is preparing to defend her dissertation. Due to an unsuccessful operation, the patient dies. But Valieva intends to continue her career in surgery and asks Sabirov to sign a certificate of death, allegedly due to heart failure. The hero does not sign the conclusion and, moreover, begins a decisive fight against the unrest in the hospital.

Forty-year-old opera chorister Pulat Mukhamedzhanov, stuck in the elevator of a multi-storey building, remembers his family and friends, the best and worst qualities that he inherited from them and, of course, hopes for salvation...

Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new friends very soon revealed the catastrophic nature of everyone’s destinies. These meetings contribute to Rustam’s spiritual and civic maturity; the hero rediscovers the necessity and significance of his homeland, where his family and friends have long been waiting for him.

Follows the life of Yuldash Akhunbabayev, one of the first leaders of Uzbekistan. The painting covers the period from the late 1930s to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

A surreal depiction of a man’s passion for film and his attempts to save his cinema.

A schoolboy Karim, who is fond of electronics, unexpectedly finds himself in a fairyland, in the laboratory of the wizard Ogima, who has been looking for a capable student for a long time. Ogima comes up with dreams - sweet and funny, being sure that he is doing good for ordinary people. It turns out that more than two people need to stand in a circle around a magic mirror and hold hands — then everything you dream about will come true. But the ruler makes the last move — she has released all dreams, people can sleep for 100 years.

A biopic of Nadira, outstanding Uzbek poetess and public leader of XIX century, mother of Kokand ruler.

How people knew how to love and cherish their love.

The Chairman of the collective farm Sattar Safarov devoted many years to growing cotton. But a new time is coming, and with it another generation of cotton growers. Among them is Safarov's son, a young scientist Murad, who bred an original variety of cotton and wants to sow it in the fields of his native collective farm. Safarov does not dare to experiment. Murad quarrels with his father, but then realizes that he is right. After a while, Murad has the idea of searching for new varieties using a computer. With his friends, the teacher Yamschikov and cyberneticist Timur, Murad begins to make the first experiments…

Set in the rural village of White Storks, the story tackles the taboo subject of an extramarital affair. Strong-willed Malika, married but childless, is openly consorting with another man with whom she shares a seemingly tender bond.

The story of Rufat Kudratov, his difficult path to success, victory and fame as a boxer.

Today is a happy day for Akbar and Farida Sadykov—their son Kamal is being released from prison. But Akbar was right to dread this meeting. His son hasn't forgiven his father for his imprisonment. He didn't even approach Akbar. Alone, Kamal recalls an old story his father told him...

Based on the famous story from the epic Shahnameh.

Shankar and Chanchal earn their living by doing road shows. Once, Shankar sees Natasha on a circus poster and dreams of working with her. He gets an offer to work in the circus in Russia.

A trinity of aliens, who arrived on Earth in order to find out the state of the intellect of its inhabitants, settled in a camping tent not far from a small Tajik village. Batur, a local guy - savvy and cheerful - with the ease of a child prodigy disables guests' equipment and charms a blue-eyed alien.

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An elderly Uzbek man living in America one day admits that his soul longs for his native village as it once did. Through deceit or trickery, he manages to get on a plane bound for Uzbekistan. He is driven by nostalgia and a long-brewing plan for revenge against a bloody enemy...

An Afghan officer, discharged from service due to injury, enters into a fight against the mafia and, in the end, exposes the criminals at the cost of his own life...

A romance by Ali Khamraev with musical numbers interspersed

Former criminal investigator is falsely accused in a death of a witness. After escape from a jail he tries to find who was responsible for ruining his life.

In the vestibule of one of the train cars Moscow-Dushanbe found the corpse of the passenger. Two random travelers - police officers Denisov and Kurbanov - have to conduct their investigation in very difficult conditions...

Crowded alleys of the evening park, music, laughter, festive fireworks. And the two are talking about murder or suicide, about the syringe found in the dead woman's hands, about the time when death occurred. These two are employees of the criminal investigation department. They will have to find criminals in a large, busy business city who stole, cheated, and, if necessary, did not stop at murder, removing unintended witnesses or unreliable accomplices from their path.

Erkin, a construction foreman, strives for quality in his work and becomes an authority on the construction site, but his love for Nazira, who has a child from a previous marriage, jeopardizes their happiness due to his uncompromising nature.

While trying to cross the State border of the USSR, a resident of one of the Western intelligence services was detained and committed suicide, who wanted to take out from Soviet territory a film shot at one of the defense facilities. From abroad they send for a duplicate of the film the granddaughter of one of the closest associates of the Basmachev leader Ibrahimbek, who inherited from her grandfather a fierce hatred for the Soviet country, and the son of a man who sold his homeland during the war years ...

From Tashkent to Bukhara go on excursion in the holidays of the pioneers, selected from the best, but for two pioneers Shahir and Vitka this trip is primarily an opportunity to find the treasures of the last Emir of Bukhara, who hid them when the troops of the Red Army approached the city, and the Emir realized that he could not hold Bukhara. In Bukhara our friends are already waiting for their accomplices, the same pioneers Anvar and Gulka, who have a map of the alleged place of the hidden treasures. Upon arriving in Bukhara, the four treasure hunters begin their search for the treasure, finding themselves in funny and absurd situations.

Seventh-grader Ilham comes on vacation to a mountain village to visit relatives. Seriously, but on the most fundamental issues of life, the boy does not find a common language with the staid, extremely self-respecting Uncle Azim. He meets the sorcerer Hamrakula-buva, who sacredly protects an old tree from death, on which, back in the thirties (the childhood years of his son, who did not return from the war), the children organized the headquarters of the Timur team. Ilham understands the old man well, helps him take care of the tree, bring out a new variety of blue rose, which his son dreamed of growing, and does not consider him a sorcerer at all.…

The head of a large family dreams of living his clan and becoming richer every year. Everyone, except for his brother-in-law and his brother Davron, obeys strict order in the house. The niece of the owner, Zarnigor, sympathizes with the rebels in many ways and soon declares to the owner her love for Davron, who wants to live with her as a separate family. At this time, a widower visits a large family and expresses a desire to marry young Zarnigor. The owner, feeling sorry for his niece, refuses, but the matchmakers force him to consent to the marriage, threatening to disclose the family secret.

The story is about a girl named Matlyuba, who arrives in the city to pursue her studies. While there, she meets a medical student named Samig and falls in love with him.

Four boys and young Aziza live with the dream of building a racing car. They had to work for a whole year. And when, during the first tests, the car caught fire, the kids found the courage to acknowledge their mistakes, listen to the advice of adults, and start all over again...