Ashik Kerib

1988 · 1 hr 13 min · N/A

Drama

Directors

Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze

Actors

Yuri Mgoyan
Sofiko Chiaureli
Ramaz Chkhikvadze

Summary

A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.

More about this movie

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 - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style overlaid with Azerbaijani folk songs.

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