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[UZBEKISTAN] Ptichka-nevelichka [Little Bird]

RUDIN, B., artist.

Item #2939

Film poster for the Uzbekfilm production directed by Latif Faiziev. Moscow: Reklamfilm, 1961. Colour poster with photographic illustrations, 66 ×92 cm (26 ×36¼ inches). In Russian. Backed; otherwise in good condition, with folds, light soiling and a small loss at the lower edge. Signed for printing on 28 August 1961. Print run: 55,000 copies.

A Soviet poster for Ptichka-nevelichka, a 1961 Uzbekfilm production based on the novella Sinchalak by the Uzbek writer Abdulla Qahhor (1907–1968), who also wrote the screenplay. Set on a collective farm in Uzbekistan, the film follows a struggle between its experienced but increasingly authoritarian chairman, Arslanbek Kalandarov, and Saida Alieva, a young Communist Party secretary sent to work there. Their dispute touches on the chairman’s resistance to criticism and to the mechanization of the cotton harvest.

The film was directed by Latif Faiziev (1929–1994), whose other productions include The Star of Ulugh Beg. Shukur Burkhanov (1910–1987) plays Kalandarov, while Svetlana Ganieva plays Saida. The cast also includes Sara Ishanturaeva (1911–1998) as Tadzhikhon, Abbas Bakirov (1910–1974) as Nasyrov, and Yu. Aripov as Ishon. The poster additionally credits O.Akhmedova.

The cinematographer was Aleksandr Pann; the film’s production artists were Nariman Rakhimbaev and Emonuel Kalantarov; the composer was Ikram Akbarov (1921–2011); and the sound operator was G. Senchilo. Akbarov wrote music for film as well as concert works, operas and musical dramas. The poster itself was designed by B.Rudin and edited by Z.Pomerantseva. Its photomontage places a large profile of a young woman opposite two images of a man, against angular green and yellow fields and the prominent red title.

Worldcat locates one copy in UC Berkeley.

Price: $750.00