Peak hour №1 29.07.1996 (1996)

The guest of the program is the famous film director Davlat Khudonazarov.

The main topics and questions discussed in the studio: 1. You were arrested in Moscow for banditry.

What have you done? (According to the submission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan that you are on the federal wanted list under Article 74 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan for banditry.) 2. Who saved you this time and from whom? - And what happened then, in 1993, when you were forced to take refuge in America? 3. It turns out that the Russian special services either did not know what was going on under their noses, or turned a blind eye to the illegal activities of their colleagues? 4. But aren’t you afraid of kidnapping now?

After all, in some 20 minutes you will leave our studio and go outside... 5. Today in Tajikistan there is a war between government troops and the Islamic opposition.

Where is your heart today? 6. Or maybe a democratic form of government is not for Asian countries at all? 7.What is Russia doing in Tajikistan?

Do you think that Russia's policy in Tajikistan is helping to end the armed conflict? 8.Do you think that Russia has a clear political concept with regard to the events in Tajikistan? 9.What is the role of Russian troops in the current situation?

Many people here in Russia believe that they have nothing to do in Tajikistan... 10.Why are the negotiations between the government and the opposition not producing results? 11.Why is it that, out of all the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, there is a civil war in Tajikistan? 12.What needs to be done to bring peace, and who should do it? (The country should be occupied by international forces and governed according to the example of post-war Japan and Germany - the Marshall Plan) 13.Aren't you afraid that now you will be accused not of banditry, but of treason? 14.But there is another problem.

Some political scientists believe that the war in your homeland is an example of the confrontation between Christianity and Islam, which will be the main contradiction. the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

Do you agree? 15. Both in Russia and in Tajikistan, religion was burned out with a hot iron for 70 years.

But it seems to me that in Tajikistan today Islam has a much greater influence than Orthodoxy in Russia.

What do you think?

Why? 16. Does this mean that Islam has deeper roots than Christianity?

Or is the observance of Sharia law more of a ritual nature? 17. How did you personally celebrate Muhammad's birthday last Saturday? 18. And you haven't filmed anything for 8 years...

Don't you believe in the power of your weapon?

If you were to film, would it be a documentary or a feature film? 19. In an article dedicated to the film director Rey, you wrote that a true artist is able to accommodate and reconcile the essential contradictions on which the world rests.

What contradictions did you have in mind?

Thank you for your answers.

Now it's the viewers' turn.

Phone calls. 1. Please tell me how the police treated you?

Did they beat you? 2. It is known that a huge amount of drugs are smuggled across the Afghan-Tajik border.

Isn't this the main reason for the war?