Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg (Абдулладжан, или Посвящается Стивену Спилбергу) 33 years old

Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplified radiance so bright and so overexposed that it no longer looks like the skies of sunny Tashkent, but a disturbing, borderless luminosity to match the flat tonal range of Stalker’s “Zone.” Our Uzbek boys are nowhere in particular; this is a broader domain than anything international.

Credits

Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg Cast

Name	Character
Vladimir Menshov He was 51, now 85 years old	as Иван Иванович Нахлобучко
Sergei Dreiden He was 49, now 83 years old

Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg Crew

Name	Department