Andriesh

  • January 9, 2019 / 19:00
  • February 2, 2019 / 15:00

Directors: Sergey Parajanov, Yakov Bazelyan
Cast: Giuli Chokhonelidze, Konstantin Russu, Nodar Shashigoglu, Ludmila Sokolova
Soviet Union, 1954, 59', color
Russian with Turkish subtitles

Andriesh is Sergey Parajanov‘s first surviving film, an expanded version of his lost student film The Moldavian Tale. It is based on a book by Yemelian Bukov about a boy shepherd Andriesh who receives a gift of a magic flute which helps him in his journey to the castle of the evil sorcerer whom Andriesh must defeat.

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