Ashik Kerib

Name: Ashug-Karibi
Genre: Drama
Released: 1988-11-23
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Yuri Mgoyan, Sofiko Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze

Original title: Ashug-Karibi

1988
1h 13m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

2.3K

YOUR RATING

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.

Directors
- Sergei Parajanov
- Dodo Abashidze
Writers
- Gia Badridze
- Mikhail Lermontov
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

2.3K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Sergei Parajanov
- Dodo Abashidze
Writers
- Gia Badridze
- Mikhail Lermontov
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 wins & 2 nominations

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)

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Plays like a folklore Armenian style

(1988) Ashug-Karib/ The Lovelorn Minstrel (In Azerbaijani, Georgian and Russian with English subtitles) HISTORICAL FABLE

Adapted from the short story "Ashik Kerib the Lovelorn Minstrel" by Mikhail Lermontov. Known as the final film by renown director Sergei Parajanov, starring Yuri Mgoyan as the title character, Ashug-Karibi a talented poet and minstrel lute player falls in love with the merchant's daughter, Magul-Megeri . Except that because he is poor, Ashik Kerib then asks her to wait for him after 1001 nights. And it is not long before his rival Kushud-Bek fools Ashik Kerib by pretending to be his friend only to stealing his clothes, and then bring them back to show them to his mother and others to make the assumption that he may have drowned. The movie plays like a folklore or as a fable as the talented minstrel player, uses his gift to lift others.