Yakov PROTAZANOV
Яков ПРОТАЗАНОВ
Yakov PROTAZANOV
USSR / USA, 1943, 80mn 
Black and white, fiction
Adventure in Bokhara
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Насреддин в Бухаре

 

 Nasreddine à Boukhara

 Nasreddin v Bukhare

 
Directed by : Yakov PROTAZANOV (Яков ПРОТАЗАНОВ)
Writing credits : Leonid SOLOVYOV (Леонид СОЛОВЬЕВ), Viktor VITKOVICH (Виктор ВИТКОВИЧ)
 
Cast
Lev SVERDLIN (Лев СВЕРДЛИН) ...Nasreddin
Emmanuil GELLER (Эммануил ГЕЛЛЕР) ...Jafar
Vasili ZAICHIKOV (Василий ЗАЙЧИКОВ) ...Niyaz
Stepan KAIUKOV (Степан КАЮКОВ) ...Bakhtiyar
 
Cinematography : Daniil DEMUTSKY (Даниил ДЕМУЦКИЙ)
Production : Studio de Tachkent
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Plot synopsis
Originally titled Nasreddin v Bukhare, this was the last filmic effort of veteran Soviet actor/director Yakov Protazanov, who died two years after its completion. Essentially a swashbuckler, the story concerns Nasreddin (Lev Sverdlin), a Slavic Robin Hood who does battle with the despotic Emir of Bokhara. Not only does he make the wicked ruler look stupid at every opportunity, but he also makes off with the Emir's prize harem girl. Nasreddin even manages to trick the villain into freeing a group of political prisoners. If only Stalin had been so easily fooled. American prints of Adventure in Bokhara ran 85 minutes, suggesting that the film had been radically cut before its non-Russian release.
Hal Erickson, www.allmovie.com

Reader reviews from kinopoisk.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024

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