Parvoz-e Zanbur

Teacher, an ordinary forty-something, is writing a book called Parvoz-e Zanbur, whilst teaching in his village, Asht in Tadzhikistan. Teacher, a just and loyal man and he distinguishes himself from his rich and pretentious neighbour who treats him with disdain. A single wall separates them, but they live in two completely different worlds. The neighbour's toilet, situated close to the wall, greatly irritates Teacher's wife. He finally goes to see his rich neighbour and asks him to do something about this situation, but is sent impolitely on his way. He then turns to legal action and comes up against the public prosecutor's arrogance. In order to revenge himself, he decides to spend his modest savings to buy the adjacent land next to his house. But the lawman discovers his plan and does everything possible to prevent him. Teacher insistsS" Jamshed Usmanov was the talented student of Davlat Khudonazarov, who had started, at the beginning of the 1970s, to form a Tadzhik 3new wave2, which became during the 1980s an interesting phenomenon of Soviet cinema. It was interrupted in the early 1990s due to the political events in this republic. Jamshed Usmanov's debut represents a great hope for the renaissance of Tadzhik cinema ".Naum Kleinman, Director of the Moscow Cinema Museum