Kerib the minstrel

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Movie
German title Kerib the minstrel
Original title Ashugi Quaribi (Ашик-Кериб)
Country of production USSR ( Georgian SSR )
original language Georgian
Publishing year 1988
length 73 minutes
Rod
Director Sergei Parajanov
Dawid (Dodo) Abashidze
script Giya Badridze
production Grusija film
music Javanshir Kuliyev
camera Albert Jawurjan
occupation

Kerib, the minstrel (original title: Ashugi Quaribi also Ashuk-Karebi, Georgian: აშიკი ქერიბი, Ашик-Кериб , Ashik-Kerib) is a Soviet feature film that was made in Georgia, directed by Sergei Parajanov and David Abashidze in 1988 , based on the oriental-inspired poem Aşıq Qərib by the Russian romantic Michail Lermontow was completed.

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Kerib, the minstrel, and Magul, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, fall in love and want to get married. For courtship, Kerib is washed by his mother and sister according to old custom and dressed in the finest clothes. With a large bowl full of rose petals, they ask the merchant for his daughter's hand. Kerib is not rich, but very beautiful, which is not enough for the merchant and he sends the suitor on a thousand-day journey so that he has the opportunity to make his fortune.

Kerib says goodbye to his family and the rest of the villagers and sets off on the long journey. After a few days he is joined by a rider who wants to join him. Although Kerib doesn't feel like it, he gives his intrusive companion his things during a river crossing so that he can bring them dry to the other bank. While he is in the middle of the river, the rider disappears with all his belongings. He goes to Kerib's mother and claims that he drowned in the water and leaves behind the clothes as evidence, whereupon the mother goes blind from grief.

Nice people help Kerib to get some clothes again so that he can continue on his way. Here he is called to an old minstrel who is dying and who wants to bless him. From him he also gets back his Saz , which he lost in the river , with the advice never to part with her again. Then he brings the old man outside the city gates so that he can die there in peace. Here the old minstrel performs one last dance, for which he is given rich gifts from a passing caravan . With these gifts he is buried by Kerib and his spirit can rise to heaven in the form of two doves.

Asis and Walije appear, who introduce themselves as the protectors of all singers and want to accompany Kerib in the future. They tell him to go to a blind wedding to play with his saz. This is just the beginning of another series of adventures, including meeting the battle-whispering Nadir Pasha. But Kerib gets the warning that the Angel of Death is already waiting for him, which is why he should be careful and vigilant. A sultan's fighters pursue him until he lies lifeless on the ground, but he is saved by several children. He can also win the fight against groups of ghosts.

Then Saint George comes ridden on a white horse and asks Kerib to sit on the horse with him, because Magul is still waiting for him. Only with a flying horse can he manage the route, which actually takes 100 days, in a single day, only to appear again in his village after a total of 1000 days. The rider, who had announced his death, is already hoping to marry the beautiful merchant's daughter, who, however, would rather take her own life. Only when he proves that his mother can see again through his return do those around him believe that he has come back with special abilities and he can finally marry his beloved Magul.

Production and publication

Ashik Kerib was filmed in the Baku area , the capital of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic . The singer was Alim Gassimov .

The color film premiered in Moscow in May 1989 under the title Ашик-Кериб , after it was shown in November 1988 at the Festival of the Felix European Film Prize in West Berlin . Like all Georgian films , Karib the Minstrel was shot in the Georgian language and then dubbed in Russian for the other Soviet republics . In the GDR , the film was shown for the first time in the Babylon cinema in Berlin on April 28, 1990.

criticism

Günter Sobe describes the film in the Berliner Zeitung as a highly stylized, sophisticated fairy tale for adults.

In New Germany, Horst Knietzsch thinks :

“The Soviet feature film 'Kerib the Spielmann' by Serqo Paradshanow and Dawit Abashidze is a demanding oriental fairy tale for adults. It lives from impressive figures and masks, a stylized narrative style, is full of symbolic details and impresses with the decorative beauty of the pictures. "

The lexicon of international film writes that the film is a cinematic picture book that is able to captivate with its symbolic opulence. But as in other films by the Georgian film artist Parajanov, there is also the risk that the staging will become independent, that beauty will be celebrated for the sake of beauty alone.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 28, 1990, p. 8
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 26, 1990, p. 9
  3. ^ New Germany of April 24, 1990, p. 4
  4. ↑ Kerib, the minstrel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used