Since March 17, the full-length feature film “The First Republic” directed by Bulat Yusupov will be released in Ufa cinemas. The tape is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the creation of Bashkortostan. Today in the State Concert Hall "Bashkortostan" there was a premiere of the film, where journalists and filmmakers gathered. The film will be shown in the Rodina cinema from March 18, in the Ultra and Kinoprostore complex from March 17.

Filming began in May 2018 and lasted 56 shifts. The main work took place in the pavilion of the film studio “Bashkortostan”; the historical center of Ufa with the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater, the Chaliapin Concert Hall also hit the picture.

According to the director, this picture is about the people who created the story. The film consists of several chapters, each of which refers to outstanding public and political figures for the republic, among them Valiulla Murtazin-Imansky, Gaziz Almukhametov, Faizi Gaskarov, Hadia Davletshina, Dauth Yluty and others. Figures who put all their strength into the formation of culture, politics and education of the republic, and then got into the merciless machine of power.

    "I am always interested in personalities followed by big things that influenced the development of the republic. I, as a researcher, try to study these people, understand their inner motivation. I hope the picture will be useful for today's generation - we must remember these people and learn from them "- says the director of the film Bulat Yusupov.

The director has assembled an impressive team of leading actors of the republic, almost all theaters. The script is written by the national artist of Russia and Bashkortostan Tansulpan Babicheva and the teacher of the Bashkir language, the scientific consultant Gulsyak Salamatova. The composer is the Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rishat Sagitov. Produced by Leonid Filinov, director of the Live Ribbon film company.

    Scriptwriter Tansulpan Babicheva notes that emotions from the film and events of those years are joy with tears in their eyes. “This is life, not a fictional story, this is what our fathers and grandfathers lived for the next generation. They built the republic of that time, ”she says.