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Filmmaker · Tajikistan

Bako Sadykov

Died in 2026

Bako Sadykov was born on 13 July 1941 in Bukhara. An actor at the city theatre in the late fifties, he studied acting and then directing at the theatre institute in Tashkent, joined the Tajikfilm studio and took Emil Loteanu's advanced directing courses in Moscow. Author of more than forty films, documentaries and fiction, he was selected at Cannes in 1989 in the Un certain regard section. He died in Berlin on 25 June 2026, at the age of eighty-four.

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