Djamila

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Dshamilja, Djamila ( Russian Джамиля, Kyrgyz Жамийла) by Tschingis Aitmatow is a 1958 novella about love . It was Aitmatov's thesis at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and was first published in the literary magazine Nowy Mir . In 1960 it was published in German under the title Djamila , translated by Hartmut Herboth in the publishing house Culture and Progress ( East Berlin / GDR ).

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Said, a 15-year-old boy, tells the love story of his sister-in-law Djamila. While Djamila's husband, Sadyk, was fighting at the front in World War II , she met Danijar with him on the daily grain transports to the train station. He is a partially disabled returnees from the front, shy, dreamy and avoided by the people in the village. It was only when he was singing a song one day that Djamila noticed that there were undreamt-of qualities in him. He sings about the landscape and about life and Said is also enraptured by him. Djamila and Danijar fall in love, and Said, who has so far tried to keep Djamila away from men because he himself is in love with Djamila in a way he cannot understand, approves of this. Through Danijar's song, he discovered his own need for artistic expression as a painter. After Sadyk's return from the front, the situation escalates and the two lovers leave the village, breaking tradition in order to be able to live together. Said also leaves the village and follows his calling as a painter.

Film adaptations

The book was first filmed in 1969 in the Soviet Union by the Russian film production company Mosfilm . Directed by Irina Poplawskaja , Natalja Arinbassarowa played the leading role ; Aitmatov wrote the script . The German film title was Longing for Djamila . Another film adaptation followed in 1994, directed by Monica Teuber .

In 2008 Marie Jaoul de Poncheville filmed the subject again under the title Tengri . The film with Albina Imashewa, Hélène Patarot and Elim Kalmuratow is based on Djamilja .

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Louis Aragon wrote about the book: I swear it is the most beautiful love story in the world. The publisher also uses the sentence as a blurb .

For students in the GDR , "Dshamilja" was required reading.

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