#აშიკ-ქერიბი

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Ashik Kerib (1988) - EN, RU

Georgian Movies

აშიკ-ქერიბი

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.

Release date: June 15, 1989 (USA)

Directors: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze

Music composed by: Dzhavanshir Kuliyev, Javanshir Guliyev

Story by: Mikhail Lermontov

Adapted from: Ashik Kerib

Languages: Russian, Georgian, Azerbaijani

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Ashik Kerib (Georgian: აშიკ-ქერიბი) ("strange ashik") is a 1988 Soviet art film directed by Dodo Abashidze from Georgia and Sergei Parajanov from Armenia that is based on the short story of the same name by Mikhail Lermontov. It was Parajanov's last completed film and was dedicated to his close friend Andrei Tarkovsky, who had died two years previously. The film also features a detailed portrayal of Azerbaijani culture.

An ashik wants to marry his beloved, but her father opposes since he is poor and he expects rich prospects for his 'daughter from heaven'. She vows to wait for him for a thousand days and nights until he comes back with enough money to impress her father. He sets out on a journey to gain wealth and encounters many difficulties, but with the help of a saintly horseman, he returns to his beloved on the 1001st day and they are able to marry.

The entire story is told in a way of Azerbaijan folklore with music and colour playing a key role. Dialogue is minimal and scripts are used to narrate the plot changes. The director included intentional anachronisms such as the use of submachine guns and a movie camera.

Parajanov's previous three major films Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, The Color of Pomegranates, The Legend of Suram Fortress were colourful illustrations of Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian culture respectively. Ashik Kerib similarly explores traditional Azerbaijani clothes, music, dance, art and customs.

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Ashik Kerib | აშიკ-ქერიბი (1988) dir. Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov

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Ashik Kerib | აშიკ-ქერიბი (1988) dir. Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov

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Ashik Kerib, inspired by Mikhail Lermontov’s 1837 story is about a minstrel who has to earn riches before he can get the hand of his beloved, Magul-Megeri. As Ashik Kerib traverses through the land, we enter into a pure poetic vision of cinema, one that’s built in childhood reverie of Parajanov.

Parajanov is renowned for developing the epic idiom through a Tableaux version of cinema. Ashik Kerib flourishes through a poetic movement that is amalgamated with his understanding of Persian miniatures.

Parajanov’s evocation is not limited to strict iconography and reproduction of miniature positioning, but it is in carefully conceptualized and developed rhythmic intensities that visually manifest themselves through the repeated actions and constant fixed movement.

Parajanov extends us an invitation to our own reverie, it registers in our inner being. Colour, sound, reverie thus establish themselves as cohesive elements of nature that reject western conventions of narrative cinema.

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Ashik Kerib 

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Las granadas de Parajanov abundan en estos planos dedicados a la abundancia del amor. Una entrada del diccionario de símbolos de Eduardo Cirlot es suficiente para sopesar su importancia:

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Ashik Kerib ( Ashug Karibi / აშიკ-ქერიბი)

1988 Soviet film directed by David "Dodo" Abashidze

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Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov & Dodo Abashidze 1988) lighter and more pantomimey than other films of his i've seen, but still, in way of vision and narrative, something that only he can create.