Kamil Yarmatov

Komil Yormatov (; 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. He later moved to Uzbekistan and then to Moscow.

Biography A member since his juvenile years of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he went to Moscow to study under Valentin Turkin at the Moscow Film School, where he graduated in 1931. 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).

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. In 1932, Yormatov directed Honored Right and On the Faraway Frontier. Both were Soviet patriotic documentaries, the first about the mobilization of Tajiks in the Soviet army, and the second describing the life of border guards at the Afghan frontier.

In 1952, Yormatov directed Pakhta-oi, a patriotic film for children about the production of cotton, and in 1957 achieved again national success in the Soviet Union with Avicenna, a film on the life of Ibn Sina.

In 2013, Tajik director Safarnek Soliev Kamil directed a documentary celebrating the 110th anniversary of the birth of Yormatov. It was selected to open the 2014 Didor International Film Festival in Dushanbe, the most important film festival in Tajikistan. People's Artist of the USSR (18 March 1959) People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (23 February 1955) Three Order of Lenin (4 November 1967, 22 June 1971, 28 April 1973) Two Order of the Badge of Honor (23 May 1940 and 16 January 1950) Stalin Prize 2nd class (1948) State Hamza Prize (1967)