The Turkmen film studio will shoot a film about Magtymguly in three cities of Turkey
Turkmen cinematographers continue shooting a documentary film dedicated to the creative legacy of the great poet Magtymguly Pyragy. Turkey will be the next country where the Turkmenfilm film crew will collect film materials from September 17 to 24.
The team of the film studio headed by director Hekim Alovov will work in three Turkish cities – Ankara, Istanbul and Konya, in which there are places associated with the activities and name of the Turkmen poet and thinker Magtymguly.
Konya district is interesting for cinematographers from a historical point of view. The ancestors of the Seljuk Turkmens once ruled here, and during their reign, the famous poet and mathematician Omar Khayam, as well as the famous thinker Mevlan Jalaleddin Rumi lived and worked in these lands. The ancient city with a rich cultural and religious history is known as the center of Sufism and this place had a noticeable influence on the poetic work of Magtymguly.
In Ankara, the film crew will visit the Turkmenistan Park, where in 2012 a monument to Magtymguly was erected in a picturesque corner of the Turkish capital. On holidays, citizens come here to lay flowers at the monument of the Turkmen poet.
Filming will also take place at the headquarters of the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), which is located in Ankara. The organization takes an active part in events dedicated to the upcoming 300th anniversary of Magtymguly Pyragy, which will be widely celebrated by the international community in 2024, declared "The Year of the Great poet and Thinker of the Turkic World – Magtymguly Pyragy".
Meetings with scientists, experts and connoisseurs of the Turkmen classic are planned in Istanbul. They are ready to share information, publications and materials that may contain new episodes from the biography of the poet, his contemporaries and followers. For example, handwritten works of the poet are kept in Istanbul, copies of which were included in the collection of manuscripts by Magtymguly Pyragy, included in the UNESCO Memory of the World register in May this year.
The film studio will present the documentary in 2024. Several film crews collect material in creative expeditions in different countries – Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkey and Russia. In Russia, the Turkmenfilm team worked in Moscow and Astrakhan region.
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