Davlat Khudonazarov, (1944-) is a Pamiri

Pamiri people

Pamiri is the name of an Iranian ethnic group in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan.-Ethnic Identity:The Pamiris are composed of people who speak the Pamiri languages, the indigenous language in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous province, and adhere to the Ismaili sect of Shia...

 Tajik filmmaker, politician and human rights

Human rights

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 activist. Davlat was born 13 March 1944 in Khorugh, Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

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Political career

Khudanazarov was a prominent filmmaker when he was elected People's Deputy from Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

 to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988. He was elected the chairman of the USSR Union of Cinematographers in 1989. He was the chief peace-negotiator between the army and the demonstrators in the February 1990 Dushanbe riots

Dushanbe riots

The Dushanbe riots were an instance of anti-Armenian and anti-government unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of the Tajik SSR, from February 12–14, 1990....

. In contrast to Khakhar Makhamov, the then president of Tajikistan who supported the August 1991 Coup in Moscow

Moscow

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, Khudonazarov was one of the organizers of the counter-coup resistance. He run against Rahmon Nabiev in the presidential elections

Tajikistani presidential election, 1991

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Tajikistan on 24 November 1991. The result was a victory for Rahmon Nabiyev of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, who won 56.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 84.6%.-Results:...

 in November 1991 as the candidate of opposition coalition. In the election Khudonazarov was supported by Pamiri and Gharmi people and educated urban elites. He received 35% of the popular vote. Khudonazarov worked as a peacemaker during the Tajik Civil War (1992 – 1996). In 1994-95 he was Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace

United States Institute of Peace

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, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2005.

Filmography

He has filmed many movies and documentaries as a director and cinematographer.

• Director:

1. V talom snege zvon ruchya (1982)

2. Yunosti pervoe utro (1979) (TV)

• Cinematographer:

1. Yunosti pervoe utro (1979) (TV)

• Self:

1. The Song of the Little Road (2003)

See also

• Politics of Tajikistan
  Politics of Tajikistan
  The politics of Tajikistan takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system...
  
  
• CNN Interview with Davlat Khudonazarov
• The Internet Movie Database