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Uzbekistan

Filmmaker · Uzbekistan

Nabi Ganiyev

Died in 1952

Nabi Ganiyev was born on 15 September 1904 in Tashkent. After two years at the Moscow higher institute of art and technology, he returned in 1925 and joined the Sharq Yulduzi studio, where he was an adviser on customs, assistant to the directors and organiser of screen tests, and played small roles. He wrote manuals in Uzbek on screenwriting and on acting for the film school opened in 1926. The first director in the country to cast mainly Uzbek actors, he made films from 1932. He died in Moscow on 29 October 1952.

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