{"id":41339,"date":"2022-01-25T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=41339"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:21:05","slug":"jamila-the-worlds-most-beautiful-love-story-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/kyrgyzstan\/jamila-the-worlds-most-beautiful-love-story-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamila \u2013 the \u201cworld\u2019s most beautiful love story\u201d on film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CENTRAL ASIAN CINEMA. <em>Jamila <\/em>(1969) is the most famous film adaptation of Chingiz Aytmatov\u2019s novel of the same name. The love story between Jamila and the injured ex-soldier Daniyar has become not only world literature, but also a classic of Central Asian cinema.<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/central-asian-cinema\/\">\u201cCentral Asian Cinema\u201d<\/a> is a series of collaborative articles written by different members of the Novastan team to share their favourite cinematographic moments about Central Asia. Each article describes a film produced or shot in Central Asia, available online.<\/em>\n\nCalled by French writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Aragon\">Louis Aragon<\/a> the <em>\u201cworld\u2019s most beautiful love story,\u201d<\/em><em>Jamila<\/em> is probably the best-known work of Central Asian literature. The novel made Kyrgyz writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinghiz_Aitmatov\">Chingiz Aitmatov<\/a> famous overnight. In 1969, it was followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F,_%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0\">Irina Poplavskaya<\/a>\u2019s film <em>Jamila<\/em>, the most successful film adaptation of Chingiz Ai<span lang=\"en-US\">t<\/span>matov\u2019s novel, in which the author himself is heard as narrator.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A love story during the Second World War<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThe film takes place in Kyrgyzstan during the Second World War: together with his sister-in-law Jamila, 15-year-old Seit must take the harvest to the train station every day because the men are at war. Jamila, the wife of Seit\u2019s older brother Sadyk, joined the family only a few months earlier as the result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ala_kachuu\">bride kidnapping<\/a>. The injured soldier Daniyar, who accompanies the pair on their trips to the train station, is initially mocked \u2013 until Jamila recognises the richness of Daniyar\u2019s heart and falls in love with him. Together they flee the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aul\">aul<\/a>, the village.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hp-newsletter col-span-3 lg:col-span-1 flex flex-col bg-primary-100 border-t-8 border-secondary-500 rounded-lg justify-center items-center lg:items-stretch px-6 py-6 gap-4 box-border\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"flex\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"enveloppe\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"far fa-envelope text-5xl text-secondary-300\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"formulaire_nl\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font-bold text-xl block\">The whole of Central Asia in your inbox\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our free weekly newsletter\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<form class=\"flex w-3\/4 lg:w-full\" action=\"https:\/\/us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=6a15a2256d412b041fdec39e8&amp;id=d479236523\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"flex-grow py-2 px-3 border border-primary-300 rounded-l\" type=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email\" name=\"EMAIL\" id=\"mce-EMAIL\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"bg-secondary-500 py-2 px-3 text-white rounded-r-md border border-secondary-500\" type=\"submit\" value=\"\" name=\"subscribe\">Register<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/form>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"underline text-secondary-700\">Click here for the latest issue\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- newsletter -->\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natalya_Arinbasarova\">Natalya Arinbasarova<\/a>, who played Jamila in the film, probably influenced the image of Chingiz Aitmatov\u2019s heroine we have today like no one else. A beautifully reproduced love story paired with magnificent landscape shots makes Poplavskaya\u2019s Jamila a must-see.\n\n<strong>Read more on Novastan: <a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/kazakhstan\/the-wounded-angel-central-asian-cinema-kazakhstan\/\">The Wounded Angel: a dramatic and profound portrait of 1990s rural Kazakhstan<\/a><\/strong>\n\nJamila is available (in Russian, with English subtitles) on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uDk_TOzgAg4\">YouTube.<\/a>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0414\u0436\u0430\u043c\u0438\u043b\u044f (\u0434\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0430, \u0440\u0435\u0436. \u0418\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u041f\u043e\u043f\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f, 1968 \u0433.)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uDk_TOzgAg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<em>Share your Central Asian films: You want to react to this article, add something about this film (a link with or without subtitles), or share with Novastan and its readers another Central Asian film? Send us your review of the film (in a similar format to this article) to info@novastan.org. Thank you all!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Novastan Editorial Team\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Translated for English by Lawrence Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Edited by Anna Wilhelmi&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<p><em>For more news and analysis from Central Asia, follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Novastan_Eng\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Novastan.org\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/novastan\">Telegram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/fondation-novastan\/\">Linkedin<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/novastanorg\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CENTRAL ASIAN CINEMA. Jamila (1969) is the most famous film adaptation of Chingiz Aytmatov\u2019s novel of the same name. The love story between Jamila and the injured ex-soldier Daniyar has become not only world literature, but also a classic of Central Asian cinema.\u201cCentral Asian Cinema\u201d is a series of collaborative articles written by different members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1579,"featured_media":41340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4068,4510,623,513,600,2578,553],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-41339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kyrgyzstan","tag-central-asian-cinema","tag-chingiz-aitmatov","tag-cinema","tag-culture","tag-film","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-litterature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45758,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339\/revisions\/45758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41339"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}