Dinara Asanova
| Dinara Asanova | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Native name | Динара Асанова |
| Born |
24 November 1942 Frunze, Kirgiz Republic, Soviet Union (now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) |
| Died |
4 April 1985 (aged 42) Murmansk, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1969-1984 |
Dinara Asanova (Russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) (24 November 1942 – 4 April 1985) was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director. She graduated high school in 1959 and began to work for Kyrgyzfilm from 1960-1962. She studied at VGIK and graduated in 1968. During her time there, she worked on Larisa Shepitko's 1963 film Heat.[1]
She directed ten films between 1969 and 1984. Her first film, Rudolfio, was directed in 1970.[2] She joined the Lenfilm studio in 1974. Her films were popular in the Soviet Union, they focused on such themes as social problems, social conditions[3] and the tension between adolescents and adults.[4] Asanova never had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.[3]
Asanova's film Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.[5]
Filmography
- Rudolfio (Рудольфио) (1970)
- Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (Не болит голова у дятла) (1975)
- The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (Ключ без права передачи) (1976)
- Beda (1977)
- The Wife Has Left (Жена ушла) (1979)
- The Useless Girl (Никудышняя) (1980)
- What Did You Chose? (Что бы ты выбрал?) (1981)
- Boys (Пацаны) (1983)
- Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... (Милый, дорогой, любимый, единственный) (1984)
- Deti razdorov (1984)
References
- ↑ "Динара Асанова". Getmovies.ru. X-Media Digital. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ Audrey Foster, Gwendolyn (1995). Women film directors : an international bio-critical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313289729. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- 1 2 Kuhn, Annette; Radstone, Susannah (1994). The Women's Companion to International Film (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0520088795.
- ↑ Lawton, Anna (1992). Kinoglasnost : Soviet cinema in our time. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780521381178. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 July 2009.