Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.
To live and to die in Samarkand (2007) is currently not available on any services.
Umida Akhmedova, Oleg Karpov
Studio Noname
