DUSHANBE, June 5, Lydia Isamova .The first female film director in Central Asia, a native of Tajikistan, Margarita Kasymova, died at the age of 87, the Tajik Union of Cinematographers reported on Wednesday.
“Margarita Kasymova, the first female film director in Tajikistan and Central Asia, died in Minsk at the age of 87,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
Kasimova was born in Dushanbe in 1938, studied at VGIK in the workshop of Sergei Dovzhenko and Mikhail Chiaureli, graduating in 1963.
Among her classmates were Larisa Shepitko and Viktor Turov. It was Turov who helped Kasymova move to Minsk just before the start of the civil war in Tajikistan. Kasymova has made 16 feature films and 30 documentaries, and starred in seven films at the Tajikfilm film studio. From 1979 to 1985 she was secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Tajik SSR.
For the film “Today and Always” in 1983 she received first prize at the Women's Film Festival in San Francisco. Since 2010, she has taught at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
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