Summing up the results of Turkmenistan's international cooperation activities in the coming year at an expanded meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held on December 9, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted that the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great son of the Turkmen people, Makhtumkuli Fragi, was widely celebrated in our and foreign countries. About 170 important events have been organized abroad on the occasion of this significant date.
One of the significant anniversary events was the premiere screening of an educational film essay on December 5, based on the poetic play "Testaments of Father" by A.V. Pavlova as part of her author's project "Geniuses of the World. Turkmenistan". This is the first film about Makhtumkuli, created in Russia on the personal initiative of the authors of the project in honor of the 300th anniversary of the classic of Turkmen literature and philosopher of the East Makhtumkuli Fragi. The film screening, organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Russian Federation with the support of the CIS Executive Committee and the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Linguistic University, took place in the assembly hall of the university.
Anastasia Valeryevna Pavlova, the author of a poetic play about the influence of the poet's father Dovletmammad Azadi on the formation of views and the spiritual world of Makhtumkuli, is a public figure, playwright, cultural critic, author of the project "Geniuses of the World", co-chairman of the socio-cultural initiative "Human Time". The director of the film is former media manager of RBC and TASS N. Gerashchenko, music by composer T.Jager.
The originality of this film project consists in an original synthesis of several genres: a poetic play, reading translations of Makhtumkuli's poems, documentary video recordings of Turkmen landscapes, staged theatrical scenes with participation of graduates of the I.D. Kobzon Institute of Theatrical Art: Mark Margaryan as Makhtumkuli, Andrei Iosifov — the poet's father, Elizabeth Prilutskaya — the beloved of the poet Mengli.
