''Morning star'' is a 1959

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film directed by Roman Tikhomirov, based on a folk tale, and featuring the Kyrgyz State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Synopsis

An evil

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, Ai Dai, using magic, switches bodies with a beautiful young woman, Cholpon, and uses her new form to seduce the young prince Nurdfin.{{Cite web, url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/cholpon-utrennyaya-zvezda-v102884, title=Cholpon - Utrennyaya Zvezda (1959) - Roman Tikhomirov {{! Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related, website=AllMovie, language=en-us, access-date=2019-03-15

Cast

* Reina Chokoyeva as Cholpon * Uran Sarbagishev as Nurdfin * Nurdin Tugelov as Temir Khan * Bubusara Beyshenalieva as Ai-Dai * Sapar Abduzhalilov as Genie

Reception

Upon the film's release in the

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in 1962, the

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wrote of it positively, saying: “As a co-production of the Leningrad and Frunze Film Studios, the picture certainly moves .. The dancers go to town, and for once (on screen, anyway) a ballet heroine, Reina Chokoyeva, conveys real terror. But the incredibly mercurial Bibisara Beishenalieva, as the sorcerer, goes the whole company one better by suggesting that she's about to take off into space.”

External links

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References

1959 films Ballet films Soviet ballet films