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Ilgar Najaf: Biografie
nar. 1975 Arménie, Sovětský svaz Biografie Ilgar Najaf byl po etnickém konfliktu v roce 1988 s celou rodinou vyhnán z Arménie, ve třinácti letech se tak stal uprchlíkem. V letech 1993–97 studoval obor filmové a televizní režie na Ázerbájdžánské státní umělecké univerzitě. Zpočátku točil dokumenty, jmenujme např. Kölgəsiz komalar (2000) či Bir qoca var… (2002), a krátké filmy (Teatral həyat, 2009, Stříbrný Remi z WorldFest Houston). V roce 2004 založil produkční studio Buta Film. Tradiční způsob života na venkově nepoznamenaném shonem moderní doby se rozhodl tematizovat již ve svém celovečerním hraném debutu Buta (2011), příběhu sedmiletého chlapce žijícího s babičkou v horské vesnici. Film, který se stal ázerbájdžánským kandidátem na…
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Ilgar Najaf
Director Screenwriter Producer Director Pomegranate Orchard Ilgar Najaf, 2017 Screenwriter Pomegranate Orchard Ilgar Najaf, 2017 Producer Pomegranate Orchard Ilgar Najaf, 2017 Source: https://mubi.com/cast/ilgar-najaf
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Ilgar Najaf
March 26, 2019 Pomegranate Orchard, Ilgar Najaf (2017) Ilgar Najaf is an Azerbaijani screenwriter, film director and producer. His debut feature Buta premiered at Tallinn Black Nights and Palm Springs; his second feature Pomegranate Orchard premiered at Karlovy Vary, Cairo, and the Eurasian International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award. Pomegranate Orchard was selected as the seventh Azerbaijani submission in history for the Foreign Language Oscar. It was not nominated.. In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Najaf discusses Chekhov, vanishing ways of life in rural Azerbaijan and his next project. // FILMATIQUE: Pomegranate Orchard takes place on a generational farm in contemporary Azerbaijan. It has been stated that…
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The Pomegranate Orchard reviewed by Robyn Jensen
Loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s last play The Cherry Orchard, Ilgar Najaf’s film The Pomegranate Orchard tells the story of a family in rural Azerbaijan, who are forced to sell their orchard. Najaf was born in Armenia in 1975, but in 1988 he and his family fled the country due to ethnic conflict. He went on to study film at the Azerbaijan State University in 1993. Pomegranate Orchard is his second feature film after Buta (2011). The film opens with an interior shot of a window with a pomegranate tree in full bloom just outside. The camera pans back to reveal the young boy Jalal taking an eye examination, as…
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This picture was created to make this world better: MINSK
After the show in Minsk “Pomegranate Garden” from the main competition of the Listapad’s feature films program took one of the leading positions in the viewer rating. Having watched the premiere, the audience not only actively voted, but also participated in the discussion of the film with producer Ali Isa Jabbarov, they asked questions and joked. As it turned out, the similarity with Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” is not the only highlight of the film. A shot from the film “Pomegranate garden” We can not understand a lot from the description of Ilgar Najaf’s picture: it echoes by its name and plot with the famous work of Russian classics, but this…
