ASHIK KERIB

This visually dazzling romantic drama is based on a fable about the minstrel Ashik Kerib by the great Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov.
Refused the hand of the woman he loves because of his poverty, Ashik Kerib vows to wander the world for 1,001 nights in search of his fortune – unless he returns a rich man, she will marry another.

Director Sergei Paradjanov – once banned from making films by the Soviet authorities and now acknowledged as one of the masters of Russian cinema – recounts this tale of an artist’s extra-
ordinary quest in a series of stunning tableaux with ravishing music and images.
ASHIK KERIB is Sergei Paradjanov's last film before he died in 1990.