Gurmindzh Zavkibekov

Acting

Gurmindzh Zavkibekov

Born 1929-05-01 · Rushan, Gorno-Badakhshanskaya AO, Tajik SSR, USSR

Acting credits

Throw poster
NR

Ensign-border guard Kalitkin, having retired due to shell shock, works as a guide for a scientific expedition in the border zone. One day, noticing violators in the border zone, Kalitkin without hesitation enters into an unequal battle with the enemy...

Throw

1982

Meeting at the Old Mosque poster
8.0

Viktor, the protagonist, a war hero of the war between the Red Army and the Turkish 'basmachi', has to fight off bandits that hope to steal gold from Viktor's village town. TIme to pick up arms once again.

Meeting at the Old Mosque

1970

Peaceful Time poster
NR

The Russian guys - Viktor, Masha, and Zhorik - arrived in distant Dushanbe on Komsomol vouchers. Tajikistan became their second homeland, and in the wonderful people Guliam, Alim, and Aziz, they found like-minded individuals. They had to endure many difficulties. But no matter how hard it was, they did not back down and did not lose faith in their just cause.

Peaceful Time

1964

Rustam and Suhrab poster
5.0

Based on the famous story from the epic Shahnameh.

Rustam and Suhrab

1972

A Man Changes its Skin poster
7.2

The construction of the Vakhsh Canal, one of the largest new buildings of the first five-year plan, is underway. Two Americans are coming here under contract. A seasoned spy, Colonel Bailey, who introduced himself as the harmless traveler Mr. Murry, would later be caught red-handed and exposed. And Mr. Clark, who came to the "make money" channel, will gradually become convinced that work and politics are not such different concepts. Not accepting socialism, he quite sincerely sympathizes with the enthusiasm of the Soviet people. Love for the translator - Komsomol member Maria Polozova - helps Clark to comprehend what is happening.

A Man Changes its Skin

1960

Control Strip poster
8.0

While trying to cross the State border of the USSR, a resident of one of the Western intelligence services was detained and committed suicide, who wanted to take out from Soviet territory a film shot at one of the defense facilities. From abroad they send for a duplicate of the film the granddaughter of one of the closest associates of the Basmachev leader Ibrahimbek, who inherited from her grandfather a fierce hatred for the Soviet country, and the son of a man who sold his homeland during the war years ...

Control Strip

1980

The Right Person poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Right Person

1967

Hasan Arbakesh poster
4.9

A story about the clash of two cultures, two worlds - traditional Tajik culture and the new, invading and imperialist in its nature, Soviet culture, about the formation of self-awareness of the Tajik dekhkanin in the 1920s-1930s.... Poor Hasan thinks and experiences a lot before he is able to comprehend the changes in his life, to realize that old traditions and customs are no longer valued. Bent by need and disenfranchisement, he finds the strength to stand up against the Basmachi.

Hasan Arbakesh

1966

A Star In The Night poster
NR

Ahmad Donish, a scholar and educator, an outstanding Tajik writer and thinker of the 19th century, envoy of the Bukhara Emirate to Russia, who did much to bring the Russian and Tajik peoples closer together and to introduce progressive democratic ideas to Central Asia—the authors dedicate this film to him.

A Star In The Night

1973

Legend of Siavush poster
5.0

The third part of Tajik trilogy.

Legend of Siavush

1977

As the Heart Commands poster
9.0

Ibragim Karimov is a respected agronomist who contributed to Soviet power in Tajikistan, fought the Basmachi, and organized collective farms. Despite health issues, he chose to stay in his role to support the district.

As the Heart Commands

1968

There Are Different Roads poster
NR

Pamir Mountains. Dangerous mountain passes. Deep gorges. Cars that carefully feel every meter of the difficult track with their wheels. The drivers' focused, tense faces...

There Are Different Roads

1971

No artwork available
NR

The war is over. Sohib Zamanov returns to his native village. A loving wife and parents are waiting for him here. However, there was no joyful meeting. The long tongues of the neighbors glorified Hubon. So the pure love and loyalty of the beautiful Hubon was trampled on...

Libel

1992

Hello, Good Man poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hello, Good Man

1975

Today and Always poster
NR

About the traveling actors of Tajikistan and its first theaters in the twenties.

Today and Always

1982

Dokhunda poster
NR

The fate of the powerless laborer Yodgor, who became an active builder of a new life in Soviet Tajikistan.

Dokhunda

1957

The Blacksmith's Banner poster
NR

Inspired by the epic poem "Shahnameh" by Ferdowsi. It tells the story of Zahhak, the ruler of the Kingdom of Snakes, who, through cunning and deception, conquers a neighboring state and establishes the cult of the Snake Goddess. Zahhak has two snakes growing from his shoulders that feed on human brains. Each day, a dancer, a devotee of the cult, performs a snake dance in the city square. The person she kisses during her performance is doomed to be sacrificed to the snakes.

The Blacksmith's Banner

1961

Death of the Moneylender poster
NR

The film portrays with exceptional psychological depth the image of the miser Cory Ishkamba, a disgusting money-grubber and exploiter, a hypocrite and a hypocrite, whose name has become a household name.

Death of the Moneylender

1967

One Life is Not Enough poster
NR

The Chairman of the collective farm Sattar Safarov devoted many years to growing cotton. But a new time is coming, and with it another generation of cotton growers. Among them is Safarov's son, a young scientist Murad, who bred an original variety of cotton and wants to sow it in the fields of his native collective farm. Safarov does not dare to experiment. Murad quarrels with his father, but then realizes that he is right. After a while, Murad has the idea of searching for new varieties using a computer. With his friends, the teacher Yamschikov and cyberneticist Timur, Murad begins to make the first experiments…

One Life is Not Enough

1974

A Little Light in the Mountains poster
NR

High in the mountains of Tajikistan lies the Obi-Safed meteorological station. Komsomol members Rajab, Dilbar, and Vika work there. Suddenly, the station’s peaceful life is disrupted by alarming news: a violent flood of the mountain rivers is expected, threatening the fields and herds of nearby collective farms. To assist the meteorologists, hydrologist Mirsaid arrives by helicopter from Stalinabad. For the helicopter pilot, Petr, every flight to Obi-Safed is a joy — his fiancée Vika is there. For the young, confident hydrologist Mirsaid, these flights are also not without interest, as he is actively courting Dilbar, much to Rajab’s dismay. Meanwhile, danger approaches.

A Little Light in the Mountains

1958

Possessed poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Possessed

1962

High Position poster
NR

A young, ambitious and self-confident girl, Zulfiya, is appointed senior assistant at the surgical clinic. She is still an inexperienced doctor, and immediately makes a number of serious mistakes. Realizing the lack of personal professionalism and the limited medical practice, Zulfiya refuses a high position and leaves as an ordinary doctor to the mountainous region of Tajikistan.

High Position

1958

Operation Cobra poster
5.2

About the Soviet border guards who declassified Operation Cobra, organized by foreign intelligence for the purpose of daily photographing a military facility. Participants of the "Cobra": a trained dog and an old watchman of the local hospital, Yusup. He is also the snake charmer Harun Baba, and the German spy Otto Grieg, already known from old sorties.

Operation Cobra

1960