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Nasreddin In Bukhara
''Nasreddin in Bukhara'' (russian: Насреддин в Бухаре, Nasreddin v Bukhare) is a 1943 Soviet comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov, based on the novel by Leonid Solovyov ''Disturber of the Peace'' about Nasreddin. Plot Nasreddin arrives in Bukhara on his donkey. On exactly this day the Emir of Bukhara administers a civil trial. Potter Niyaz owes 400 tenga to moneychanger Jafar and the court orders him to return the money within one hour. The poor potter has no money and this means that he will have to become a slave along with his daughter Guljan. Niyaz is saved by Nasreddin who buys out his debt from Jafar. Indignant Jafar denounces this story to the Emir of Bukhara. Emir calls to catch the rebel who dared to leave his sentence without execution. Nasreddin flees from the guards out of Niyaz and Guljan's house. But now Nasreddin's lover may become an addition to the harem of the Emir, and in order to save her Nasreddin dresses up as a scientist-astrologer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasreddin In Bukhara (1943)
''Nasreddin in Bukhara'' (russian: Насреддин в Бухаре, Nasreddin v Bukhare) is a 1943 Soviet comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov, based on the novel by Leonid Solovyov (writer), Leonid Solovyov ''Disturber of the Peace'' about Nasreddin. Plot Nasreddin arrives in the city of Bukhara with his donkey after many adventures around half the world. The city is bustling as a bazaar is taking place and the Emir of Bukhara, Emir is scheduled to hold court. At the city gate, Nasreddin's ingenuity is immediately tested as he must find a way to enter without paying the numerous taxes. After succeeding, he discovers a young, pretty girl named Gyuldjan at a pond, drawing water with a jug. He falls in love with her at once and calls her "little toad". In return, she compares him to a donkey. Suddenly, there is a commotion at the pond because a man is about to drown. After several failed rescue attempts, Nasreddin shows the correct way to save him. Recognizing the man as wealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944). Biography Born in the Vinokurov family estate to educated Russian parents, both of whom belonged to the merchantry social class. Mikhail Arlazorov. ''Protazanov''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973, pp. 7—9 His father Alexander Savvich Protazanov came from a long generation of merchants and was a hereditary distinguished citizen of Kiev (an inherited privilege first granted to Yakov's great-grandfather, a merchant also named Yakov Protazanov who moved with his family to Kiev from Bronnitsy). Alexander worked with the Shibaev brothers of the family of Old Believers whose father Sidor Shibaev was among the pioneers of the oil industry. Yakov's mother Eliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili Zaychikov
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Russian Romantic Comedy Films
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Soviet Historical Comedy Films
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |