Komil Yormatov

Komil Yormatov (Tajik: Комил Ёрматов; 2 May 1903 in Konibodom – 17 November 1978 in Moscow) was a prominent actor and director in the cinema of Tajikistan during the Soviet era.

Before graduation, he had already starred in the Soviet propaganda movies The Jackals of Ravat (1927), From the Arch of the Mosque (1928), both directed by Kasimir Gertel (1889–1938), and The Last Bek (1930).

[1][2] After graduating in Moscow, Yormatov went back to his native Tajikistan to help with the newly established state cinema company Tajikkino, where he started his directing career.

[2] In 1939, Tajikkino produced Friends Meet Again by Yormatov, which exalted economic progress under Joseph Stalin but also denounced infiltration by foreign spies, a typical Stalinist theme.

When he visited Vietnam in 1957, the local vice-minister of culture told him that Alisher Navoi was one of the first Soviet movies screened for the guerrilla fighters during the First Indochina War.