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Ashik Kerib(1988)
Status: Released
Date: 1988-07-03
62%
44 Votes
Time: 1h 16m
Overview:
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.
Languages: Azerbaijani, Georgian.
Countries:
Soviet Union
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Ashik Kerib
Top 10 Billed Cast
Yuri Mgoyan
Ashik Kerib
სოფიკო ჭიაურელი
Mother
რამაზ ჩხიკვაძე
Ali-Agha
Костянтин Степанков
Teacher
Baia Dvalishvili
sister
Слава Степанян
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Overview
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.
Release Date
1988-07-03
Average
6.2
Rating:
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