This article is for the 1990 film. For information on the term "mankurt", please see the section The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years – Mankurt.

Mankurt (Russian: Манкурт - "Manwolf", or "Bird memory") is a 1990

1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 Soviet

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 film written by Mariya Urmatova and the last film directed by Khodzha Narliyev. The main cast were Tarik Tardzhan, Maya-Gozel Aymedova, Jylmaz Duru, Khodzhadurdy Narliev, Maysa Almazova.

Background

The film was partially filmed on location in Syria

Syria

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 and in Turkey

Turkey

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, representing a Turkish-Soviet cooperation in filmmaking. The film is based on one narrative strand within the novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years , originally published in Russian in the Novy Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov.-The title of the novel:...

 ("И дольше века длится день") by Chinghiz Aitmatov

Chinghiz Aitmatov

Chyngyz Aitmatov was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.- Life :...

, a philosophical tale about what can happen to people if they forget their motherland, language, and history. The Turkic

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 legend mentioned in the novel tells about a cruel way of making a mankurt of a captive man in the hopes that he will forget everything but basic activities and, thus, becomes an ideal slave

Slavery

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 of Djungar masters.

Synopsis

The film is about a Turkmenian who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.

Cast

• Maya-Gozel Aimedova
• Nurberdy Allaberdyyev
• Maysa Almazova
• Baba Annanov
• Kerim Annanov
• Yylmaz Duru
• Altyn Khodzhayeva

• Khommat Mullyk
• Khodzha Durdy Narliyev
• Takhyr Narliyev
• Mergen Niyazov
• Maya Nuryagdyyeva
• Sapar Odayev
• Tarik Tardzhan

See also

• Pitchcapping
  Pitchcapping
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• Turkish
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
   sources:
  • HOCAKULU NARLIYEV İLE KONUŞMA-MART 2001-KINO KULTURA-GULNARA ABIKEEVA

    (WITH SPEECH-MARCH 2001-Kino Kultura HOCAKULU NARLIYEV-Gulnara ABIKEEVA)

  • "GORBAÇOV DÖNEMİDEN TAM YARARLANAMADIK",(MANKURT FİLMİNİN ÇEKİMLERİ-ANTALYA)(KONUŞAN:BURÇAK EVREN)HOCAKULU NARLIYEV,GÜNEŞ GAZ.,11.10.1989VAHŞETİN DAVULLARI-MANKURT-SINOPSIS HAZ.:RIFAT ORAK

    "Gorbachev YARARLANAMADIK FULL PERIOD", (filming MANKURT-Antalya) (TALKING: BURÇAK UNIVERSE) HOCAKULU NARLIYEV, SUN GAS., 11.10.1989VAHŞETİN MANKURT Drums-JUN-Synopsis.: RIFAT SICKLE

External links

• Mankurt at the Internet Movie Database
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