02 Jan 1964
The Contest
About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy and Persian court musician Ghulam Bakhshy.
Mankurt
The film is about a Turkmen who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.
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Tarık Tarcan Mankurt
Yılmaz Duru Maysa Almazova 
Ходжадурды Нарлиев 
Майя-Гозель Аймедова Nurberdy Allaberdyyev 
Aman Odayev
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