Hidden Treasure - Ali Hamroyev Films

Hidden Treasure Ali Hamroyev Films will be at Pera Museum stage on April 25 – May 10, 2015.

"If there is a giant who sits astride the history of Uzbek cinema, it's Ali Hamroyev. An artist of rock-solid humanism and amazing expressive power. Ali Hamroyev., one of those rare talents like Welles or Godard or Scorsese whose love for the medium is so intense that his best films burst with criss-crossing energies and insights, like a fireworks display. Hamroyev.  is a towering figure, a wizard with landscapes (they all seem charged, often enchanted) and an instinctual genius with actors. Anyone interested in the Brechtian idea of the social gestus should study Hamroyev's ferocious 1972 masterpiece Without Fear, which deals with the Soviet modernization of a Muslim village in 1927 and the shock waves caused by the sight of unveiled women. Hamroyev's bravura talent isolates just the right gestures, merging the physical, the visual, and the dramatic with perfect
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