Anatoli Kabulov

Rakhim and the Beetle

Rahim the boy was catching pest beetles in the field, and he caught the King of Beetles. In retaliation, the King of Beetles reduced Rahim to the size of a beetle and threw him in prison. There, the girl Cotton was already imprisoned. The boy promised to free her...

Come Into My Home

A young journalism student from Moscow, Andrei, arrives in Tashkent, where he falls in love with both the city and its people. He is able to meet new friends and experience his first love, which leads him to decide to stay in Tashkent forever.

The Magic Chamois

Based on an Uzbek folk tale about how a magical chamois helped poor Hassan become rich. However, his wealth makes him cruel and greedy.…

A Puppy and Seven Goslings

How friends punished a bully cat.

Defiant

1925. Soviet power arrives in the remote Karakalpak villages. During this time, the dzhigit Turumbet and the beautiful Jumagul fall in love with each other. However, after the wedding, the young wife leaves her husband’s home, unwilling to accept the Old Testament way of life of her husband's family. Turumbet, who participates in bandit raids, does not immediately understand the revolutionary changes taking place.

Farrukh and Zumrad

Based on an oriental legend about young lovers.

The Potter and the Pot

The potter, who created a friend out of clay, ended up with a vile creature that brought evil and sorrow to those around him.

Blind Rain

The story is about a girl named Matlyuba, who arrives in the city to pursue her studies. While there, she meets a medical student named Samig and falls in love with him.

Possessed

The Red Army soldier Maksud returns with a detachment of the Red Army to his native village. Maksud sees that nothing has changed in the village — just like in the old days, the bai are rampaging, oppressing the people: bek Rahmankul ordered the hanging of two dehkans who plowed the land that the Soviet government gave them. Obsessed with hatred of the new order, Rahmankul asks Sheikh Abbas to give him the treasures of the mosque to arm his gang.

The Dreamseller

A schoolboy Karim, who is fond of electronics, unexpectedly finds himself in a fairyland, in the laboratory of the wizard Ogima, who has been looking for a capable student for a long time. Ogima comes up with dreams - sweet and funny, being sure that he is doing good for ordinary people. It turns out that more than two people need to stand in a circle around a magic mirror and hold hands — then everything you dream about will come true. But the ruler makes the last move — she has released all dreams, people can sleep for 100 years.

And Who's the Magician?!

How a kind wizard helped to re-educate an evil boy. And what it led to…

The Tale of the Shepherd and the Beautiful Princess

A tale of how, despite all the efforts of a wicked and cruel padishah, his only daughter marries the tenth son of the poorest shepherd.

You Are, You Are My Song

About the love of the pop singer Akmal for a beautiful stranger, whom he once met in a taxi. Akmal searches for a long time and unsuccessfully for a girl whose name and address he does not know, and as a reward for his long search, he accidentally meets his love...

Brave Sparrow

That Was in Kokand

About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.

The Oath of Jantai

Beginning of the 1920s. Jantai and the hero Mergen, residents of one of the mountain villages in Uzbekistan, set off for Moscow to order a monument to Lenin from a capital sculptor with the money collected by the people and to bring it back to their village. They are assisted in fulfilling the order by a homeless boy named Grishka, who has joined them in the capital.

Old Plane Tree

About the family of the old man Achila-Buva, about his children and grandchildren living in an Uzbek village, about an old plane tree covering the saplings with its branches.