Film 2002
Comrade Boykenjayev
A loyal official and an impossible cemetery
- Country collection
- Uzbekistan
- Original title
- O'rtoq Boykenjayev
- Director
- Yusup Razykov
- Running time
- 78 min
- Year
- 2002
Editorial profile. Availability on LAREINE TV has not been confirmed.
Story, without spoilers
Boykenjayev must create a cemetery for people of different backgrounds. Once it is ready, finding an Uzbek to bury at its ceremonial opening becomes a farcical bureaucratic crisis.
Context & recognition
Yusup Razykov’s 2002 Uzbek black comedy revisits Soviet rule through an obedient official’s assignment. Farkhad Abdullayev and Matluba Alimova appear.