The Minstrel

This film (drama)Also known asАшик-Кериб，is aSoviet UnionProducerwomen sex，At1988Released in year 。The dialogue language isAzerbaijani, Georgian，Current Douban rating8.1(For reference only)。

Sergey Parajanov, born in 1924 in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union, to Armenian parents. He showed sensitivity to color and a divine talent for painting from an early age. Besides painting, he was deeply interested in film and music since childhood. In 1945, at the age of 21, his studies in Moscow marked a turning point in his life. He entered the directing department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), a prestigious film school with a long history that produced many masters of cinema for the European continent. He later became the assistant to his teacher, the renowned poet film pioneer, Sergei Paradjanov, who influenced both Tarkovsky and Paradjanov. Based on a story by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov. A wandering minstrel spends a thousand days and nights traveling to bring joy to people wherever he goes. His nomadic lifestyle seems aimless, but it is not. He hopes that after a thousand days and nights, he will earn enough money to hold a wedding... if the bride is still waiting for him. 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 - not before securing a promise from the daughter that she won't marry until his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually stunning 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs.