Was born on May 1, 1903 in the city of Konibodom.
Director, screenwriter.
Honored Artist of the Tajik SSR (1939).
Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1944).
People’s Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1955).
People’s Artist of the USSR (1959).
He graduated from the workers’ faculty in Moscow (1924), the directing department of the State Institute of Culture (1931).
In 1918-1924 he was a district clerk in Kanibadam, served in the Red Army, was a member of the Bureau of the RK Komsomol of Tajikistan in Kanibadam.
In 1926-1928 he was an actor and director at the Tashkent Film Studio.
In 1932-1941 – director of the Tajikkino film studio (later Stalinabad film studio), where he directed the first Tajik film (“Emigrant” – 1934).
Since 1941 – director of the Tashkent film studio (now Uzbekfilm), artistic director of the film studio.
He passed away on November 18, 1978 in Tashkent.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1948, for the film “Alisher Navoi”)
Laureate of the State Prize of the Uzbek SSR named after Khamza (1967, for the film “Storm over Asia”).
All-Union Film Festival (First Degree Diploma, film “Avicenna”, Moscow, 1958)
All-Union Film Festival (Diploma, film “When Roses Blossom”, Kiev, 1959)
X All-Union Film Festival (Special Jury Prize, film “Distant Close Years”, Riga, 1977)
International Film Festival in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) (Main Prize “Golden Absara”, film “Poem of Two Hearts”, 1968)
I International Film Festival of Asian and African Countries in Tashkent (Diploma, film “Horsemen of the Revolution”, 1968)
Three Orders of Lenin (?, 1967,1973)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1964).
Two Orders of the Badge of Honor (1940, 1950)
Medal “In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
Medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.”
Certificates of honor of the Supreme Councils of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Hero of Socialist Labor (1973)