Comrade Boykenjaev

Oʻrtoq Boykenjayev

Overview

In the late 1990s, in a small town in Uzbekistan, during the last communist winter, the city authorities decided to establish the world's first internationalist cemetery, where all religions could coexist. Comrade Boykenjaev, an active Party member, was assigned the task. The problem arose when the local Party leader ordered the first burial ceremony to take place on the same day as the cemetery's inauguration. Boykenjaev must then find a corpse...

Production

Uzbekfilm