The project of a new animated film, named after the famous folklore character of the East, Khoja Nasreddin, was supported by studios from Turkey, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The film will be shot by Russian film director Timur Bekmambetov, who owns the idea of the tape, TASS reports.

Turkish company Yerli Düşünce Broadcast Media Ltd. and the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT TV channel) will finance an animated film by the Bazelevs studio about a popular fairy tale character, and will receive the rights to distribute it throughout the country. And the project itself will be the first major co-production in cinema between Russia and Turkey. In addition, TR became the third country to support the cartoon project about the adventures of Khoja Nasreddin. Earlier, Bazelevs entered into a co-production agreement with the National Film Agency of Uzbekistan and the Kazakhfilm studio.

By the way, the production of the new film will partially unfold on the territory of these states and here, as well as in Turkey, within the framework of the project, the Bazelevs film company plans to open Timur Bekmambetov's animation schools, where Russian specialists will retrain local actors into professional 3D animation artists- the message says.

The cartoon "Khoja Nasreddin" will be based on the plot of the puppet production of the same name by Bekmambetov, which premiered at the beginning of the year at the Theater of Nations in Moscow. In the performance, the puppets spoke with the voices of Yevgeny Mironov, Konstantin Khabensky, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Igor Zolotovitsky, Chulpan Khamatova, Elizaveta Boyarskaya and Inga Oboldina. It is expected that the actors will take part in the work on the new animation project.

Khoja Nasreddin is known as a folk character of the Muslim East and some peoples of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. This is the hero of short humorous and satirical miniatures and anecdotes, and sometimes everyday tales.

In 2020, an application was submitted for inclusion in the UNESCO list of the tradition of retelling the parables of Khoja Nasreddin as a common object of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

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