Ali Hamroyev

Ali Hamroyev
Али Хамроев
Born
Ali Ergashevich Hamroyev

(1937-05-19) May 19, 1937 (age 89)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Occupationsactor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer
Awards

Ali Khamraev (sometimes spelled Ali Khamrayev, or Ali Hamraev in English) (Uzbek: Ali Hamroyev, Али Ҳамроев; Russian: Али Хамраев) (born May 19, 1937) is an Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known in the former Soviet Union for his works in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1988 he has been living in Italy.

To date, Hamroyev has made over 30 documentary and over 20 feature films. His most famous films include Yor-yor (1964), Without Fear (1971 Film) (1971) The Seventh Bullet (1972), The Bodyguard (1979), and Vuodillik kelin (1984). Hamroyev has received many honorary titles and awards, including the title Meritorious Artist of Uzbekistan (1969).

Life and work

Ali Hamroyev was born on May 19, 1937, in Tashkent, then the Uzbek SSR. He graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1961. That same year he started working at Uzbekfilm.

Hamroyev is best known in the former Soviet Union for his works in the 1960s and 1970s. He has made over 30 documentary and over 20 feature films throughout his career. Hamroyev is still working today. In 2010, he announced that Jack Nicholson had agreed to portray Timur in his new movie.

Filmography

As director

As actor

As screenwriter

Awards

Hamroyev has received many honorary titles and awards throughout his career, including the title Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1969). In 1971, he received the State Hamza Prize.

In 2021 won an award at the 5th FELIX Film Festival in Milan with "The Scent of Melon in Samarkand"

References

  1. ↑ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 336–337. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ↑ "Hamroyev Ali Ergashevich". Oʻzbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi (in Uzbek). Toshkent. 2000–2005.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ Али Хамраев — восточный человек, живущий на Западе
  4. ↑ "Ali Khamrayev: 'Antonioni and I settled in the house of a collective farmer'". Kultura (in Russian). Retrieved 8 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ "Ali Khamrayev: Jack Nicholson to portray Timur". Uznews (in Russian). 28 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Khamrayev Ali Irgashaliyevich (Ergashevich)". Kino-Teatr (in Russian). Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "Адабиёт, санъат ва архитектура соҳасида 1971 йилги Ҳамза номидаги Ўзбекистон ССР давлат мукофотларини бериш тўғрисида" [On awarding the 1971 State Wwards of the Uzbekistan SSR named after Hamza in the field of literature, art and architecture]. Sovet Oʻzbekistoni (in Uzbek). No. 261. 10 November 1971. p. 1.