Damir Salimov

Damir Salimov was born on 19 July 1937 in Samarkand. He studied directing at the Moscow film institute, in the workshop of Mikhail Romm, where Andrei Tarkovsky and Vasily Shukshin also studied, then made his career at the Uzbekfilm studio. There he made the first animated films of his country, in puppets at first, and was among those who established Uzbek animation in the seventies. A director, cinematographer and screenwriter, he received the Hamza State Prize in 1983. He died on 28 March 2019.

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• CinemaShum bolaDamir Salimov · 1977Cinema