Jamshed Usmonov and Min Byung-hun

Jamshed Usmonov was born on 13 January 1965 in Asht, in Tajikistan, studied at the school of fine arts in Dushanbe, then directing in Moscow, where he met in a student residence the Korean Min Byung-hun, born in Seoul in 1969 and trained at the Moscow film institute. After a first film in 1991, Usmonov made this feature film with him, Min handling the cinematography, then directed three other films on his own, two of which were selected at Cannes in the Un certain regard section, in 2002 and in 2006.

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• CinemaThe Flight of the BeeParvaz-e zanburJamshed Usmonov and Min Byung-hun · 1998Cinema