Memory Grove

Rali

Meetings and Partings

The Golden Goose

Death of the Black Consul

Сыны отечества

Riders of the Revolution

Буря над Азией

Star of Ulugbek

Where Are You, My Zulfiya

A Titmouse

The Sword and the Dragon

Takhir and Zukhra

Asal

Shukur Burkhanov (15 September 1910 – 15 August 1987) was a Soviet and Uzbek stage and film actor. He is recognized as a People's artist of the USSR.
Burkhanov was born and grew up in Tashkent (then part of the Russian Empire) in a strict Muslim family. In order to join the Uzbek drama theatre, which was founded in the 1920s, he had to leave home because his family's orthodox religious beliefs forbade acting.
At the time Uzbek theatre was still in its infancy. In 1930 he received training at the Moscow Art Theatre, which he credited as enabling him to play classic roles such as Romeo, Hamlet, and Oedipus.
Burkhanov was involved in Uzbek cinema from its very inception. The Uzbekfilm studio typecast him as a rebel who challenged the old order and traditions.
In the early 1970s he was the subject of a documentary, People's Artist Shukur Burkhanov, narrated by fellow actor Boris Andreyev.

