As per the opinion of the Russian journalist Svetlana Hohryakova, the most exotic movie of the debut film festival “One sixth” become the film of the Turkmen film director Sahysalyh Bayramov “Red kurte” (Gyzyl kürte).
This debut in the fictional film Sahysalyh Bayramov, deputy head of the association "Turkmenfilm". Before that, he shot documentaries, worked as an actor. He began his career in cinema as a teenager when he starred in the film “Son”, where he played the son of a soldier. Now Sakhysalykh's son plays in his film “Red Kurte”, the journalist notes.
The production team consists of 20 people, the movie was shoot in four months in 50-degree heat. Filmed in the Turkmen village, however the part of the decorations still was specially constructed. The main role in the film Govher, was played by Ayna Jumaeva, the leading actress of the Pushkin Russian Drama Theater in Ashgabat.
The subject of a picture is taken from life and touches the period of the World War II.The main hero is Meretli in his wedding day head off to war.
From the front, he writes a letter to his fiancée Govher, where he promises to return with a victory.Meretli will die in the war, and Govher will wear the head cape kurte all her long life, because it is supposed not to take it off forty days after the wedding.
She never got married she was waiting for her Meretli…
The film is based on a real story: in the finale of the film, archival footage from 2012 is shown, where 85-year-old Nurbibi talks about how she was waiting for the groom.
The Russian journalist noted that the decoration from bulrush reminded her “The Last “Darling Bulgaria” of Aleksey Fedorchenko. The report of Svetlana Hohryakova regarding the film was also published in today’s issue of the Turkmen edition 7/24.tm.
Previously we reported that the film of the Turkmen film maker participates the program of the international festival “One sixth”.