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Ashik Kerib

Original title: Ashug-Karibi
  • 19881988
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
Ashik Kerib (1988)
  • Drama
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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Directors
    • Sergei Parajanov
    • Dodo Abashidze
  • Writers
    • Gia Badridze
    • Mikhail Lermontov(story "Ashik Kerib the Lovelorn Minstrel")
  • Stars
    • Yuri Mgoyan
    • Sofiko Chiaureli
    • Ramaz Chkhikvadze
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Sergei Parajanov
    • Dodo Abashidze
  • Writers
    • Gia Badridze
    • Mikhail Lermontov(story "Ashik Kerib the Lovelorn Minstrel")
  • Stars
    • Yuri Mgoyan
    • Sofiko Chiaureli
    • Ramaz Chkhikvadze
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 12User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 1 nomination

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    Yuri Mgoyan
    Sofiko Chiaureli
    Sofiko Chiaureli
    Ramaz Chkhikvadze
    Ramaz Chkhikvadze
    Konstantin Stepankov
    Konstantin Stepankov
    Baia Dvalishvili
    Veronique Matonidze
      David Dovlatian
      Levan Natroshvili
      Slava Stepanian
      Nodar Dugladze
      Dodo Abashidze
      Dodo Abashidze
        • Directors
          • Sergei Parajanov
          • Dodo Abashidze
        • Writers
          • Gia Badridze
          • Mikhail Lermontov(story "Ashik Kerib the Lovelorn Minstrel")
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        • Trivia
          Dedicated to Sergei Parajanov's close friend Andrei Tarkovsky who had died two years before the film was released.
        • Connections
          Featured in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)

        User reviews12

        Review
        Top review
        5/10
        fractured fairy tale from a remote culture
        Another odd, exotic fable from the Soviet Union's most enigmatic filmmaker, set this time in a storybook past where, to win the hand of his true love, a penniless minstrel is forced to wander for a thousand days in search of wisdom and enlightenment. Parajanov is one of the leading figures in his country's so-called 'poetic cinema movement', which means his films are crude, heavily stylized rites of passage, thick with symbols and anachronisms. The naive, almost primitive formality recalls both the ancient, ritual folklore of its Central Asian setting and the cheap conventions of early silent film melodrama, with the Georgian voice-over narration (added on top of Parajanov's post-dubbed Azerbaijani dialogue) giving the film an added level of weirdness. On his magical quest the lovelorn troubadour encounters a blind wedding party, a despotic sultan with a toy machine gun toting harem, a pantomime tiger, and survives various other trials and tribulations, all to a nerve-racking background of wailing Middle Eastern music.
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        • mjneu59
        • Nov 5, 2010

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        • Release date
          • November 23, 1988 (France)
        • Country of origin
          • Soviet Union
        • Official site
          • parajanov.com (United States)
        • Languages
          • Azerbaijani
          • Georgian
          • Russian
        • Also known as
          • Kerib, der Spielmann
        • Filming locations
          • Baku, Azerbaijan
        • Production company
          • Georgian-Film
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        Technical specs

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        • Runtime
          1 hour 13 minutes
        • Color
          • Color
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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