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Mankurt (Turkmen: Mankurt, Russian: Манкурт - "Manwolf", or "Bird memory") is a 1990 Soviet film written by Mariya Urmatova and the last film directed by Khodzha Narliyev. The main cast were Tarik Tardzhan, Maya-Gozel Aymedova, Jylmaz Duru, Khodzhadurdy Narliev, and Maysa Almazova.
Mankurt is a term that refers to unthinking slave in Turkic mythology.
According to Chinghiz Aitmatov, there was a Kyrgyz legend, according to which mankurts were prisoners of war who were turned into slaves by having their heads wrapped in camel skin. Under a hot sun these skins dried tight, like a steel band, thus enslaving them forever. This, he likens to a ring of rockets around the earth keeping out humankind's higher civilisation. A mankurt did not recognise his name, family or tribe — «a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being».
Discussion is open about the origin of the word 'mankurt.' It was first used in the press by Aitmatov and he is said to have taken the word from the Epic of Manas. 'Mankurt' may be derived from the Mongolian term "мангуурах" (manguurah means "stupid"), Turkic mengirt (one who was deprived memory) or (less probably) man kort (bad tribe).