The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, NaN of which were born in Tajikistan. This makes Tajikistan the birth place of the 0th most number of Film Directors.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tadzhik Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Tadzhik Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (1965 - 2015)
With an HPI of 45.06, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov is the most famous Tadzhik Film Director. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (Russian/Tajik: Бахтиёр Худойназаров, Persian: بختیار خداینظرف) (May 29, 1965 – April 21, 2015) was a film director, producer and screenwriter from Tajikistan, a graduate of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His most internationally famous film is the comedy Luna Papa (1999). He won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his film Kosh ba kosh (1993). In 2000 he was a member of the jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. Khudojnazarov lived in Berlin, Germany, from 1993 and died from a short illness aged 49.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tadzhik film directors born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Tadzhik film directors include Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov. As of April 2024, 1 new Tadzhik film directors have been added to Pantheon including Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov.
