Mankurt (; ) is a 1990 Soviet film written by Mariya Urmadova and directed by Hojaguly Narliyev. The main cast were the Turkish actors and and the Turkmen actors Maya-Gozel Aymedova and Hojadurdy Narliyev.
The film was partially filmed on location in Syria and in Turkey, representing a Turkish-Soviet cooperation in filmmaking. The film is based on the fictional legend about a mankurt within the novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ("àôþûÃÂÃÂõ òõúð ôûøÃÂÃÂàôõýÃÂ") by Chinghiz Aitmatov, a philosophical tale about what can happen to people if they forget their motherland, language, and history. The Turkic legend invented by Aitmatov for the novel conceives of a cruel way of making mankurts of captives in the hopes that they will forget everything but basic activities, rendering them servile minions to Zunghar conquerors.
The film is about a Turkmen who defended his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he does not recognize his mother and kills her when she attempts to return his memories.