A century-old plane-tree spreading its branches over the entire courtyard, a spring that found its way up through its powerful roots, walls covered with tiles featuring Arabic characters of the surah, festively dressed crowd, and actor Razak Khamraev as Alisher Navoi, standing tall above the crowd on a high podium вЂ“ all this came together in the viewfinder of Mikhail Krasnyanskiy, the cameraman, and on the screen the sight was striking not only in the beauty of the chosen site, but also in the ultimate expressivity of the whole episode. In one day the film crew cleaned the entire courtyard, washed the tiled walls, and Hojiakhrar was transformed.Д«ased on YeremyanвЂ™s sketches, minor decorative additions were constructed, and the courtyard of the ancient mosque turned into the вЂњPoetsвЂ™ GardenвЂќ where once verbal duels, spiritual debates and wit contests were held. YarmatovвЂ™s authority worked and a decision was wade to remove the warehouse. Together, they arrived to Hojiakhrar вЂ“ a unique site that had been converted into a warehouse for recyclables. Originally, the poetic contest episode was supposed to be filmed in a pavilion, but Varsham Nikitovich convinced Yarmatov to create the scene en plein air. Shooting on location had a special significance in the film. вЂњAlisher NavoiвЂќ earned State Award and was included into the Golden Asset collection of soviet cinematography. To recreate the age of Uzbek Renaissance, to dress the characters, and to build palace interiors was not an easy problem, but Varsham Yeremyan and Kamil Yarmatov solved it brilliantly. Together, they made many films, but вЂњAlisher NavoiвЂќ was the first historical work produced by вЂњUzbekFilmвЂќ studio. Good artistic fortune brought Kamil Yarmatov and Varsham Yeremyan together. The reason we came to Hojiakhrar was that the key episodes of вЂњAlisher NavoiвЂќ film produced by Kamil Yarmatov, with the involvement of Varsham Nikitovich as art director, were created here. The film we were making was titled вЂњOne of the PioneersвЂќ and told about a remarkable artist Varsham Nikitovich Yeremyan. It has been more that forty years since on a sunny springtime day our small film crew arrived to the gate of an ancient Hojiakhrar mosque located not far from Samarqand.

Varsham movie collection report