Arend Agthe and Usman Saparov

Arend Agthe, a German director of films for young people, was invited, according to the BJF, to present one of his successful films in Turkmenistan; there he met Usman Saparov. The latter, born in 1938 in the Mary district, had trained as a cinematographer at the Moscow Film Institute before moving into directing; a year before this film, the Berlin festival had awarded a prize to one of his children's films. The two men wrote the screenplay together.

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• CinemaKarakumArend Agthe and Usman Saparov · 1994Cinema