Cinema
A Poet's Fate
Судьба поэта
Boris Kimyagarov · 1959
Synopsis
The film traces the life of Rudaki, regarded as the father of Persian and Tajik poetry, blending the few known facts of his existence with stories drawn from the Persian classics. It gives the poet a passion for a slave, Nigina, after an account by Attar, and stages the famous episode in which his verses persuade the emir to leave Herat and return to Bukhara, reported in the twelfth century by Nizami Aruzi of Samarkand.
Context
The screenplay is by Sotim Ulughzoda, the cinematography by Nikolai Olonovsky and the music by Andrei Babayev, who has the courtiers sing in great choruses; Ghaffor Valamatzoda arranged the dances. Marat Aripov plays the poet, alongside Nozukmo Shomansurova. One hour and forty-one minutes long, the film is a musical comedy in the Hollywood manner, according to the study published by the Cambridge University programme devoted to Persian literature.
Who it is for
For those who like the legends of Persian poets and Soviet historical films from Central Asia.
Prizes and reception
It is cited among the works that have made Rudaki, in film as in music, a symbol of Tajik identity.
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