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Return of Nasreddin Hodja
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Return of Nasreddin Hodja

1990-03-11 · 92 min · ★ 7.0

Drama · Family · Fantasy

An ingenuous film about the eternal, about the meaning of human life on earth. In a word, about what has been said a thousand times and a thousand times retold. The famous hero of Eastern legends, Hodja Nasreddin - a serious joker, thinker and truth-seeker - by the will of the authors became a foster brother and a friend of youth, no less famous, but in everything opposite to him - the tyrant and autocrat Timur Tamerlane.

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Directors
Rein Liblik
Production companies
Gorky Film Studios, Kontakt
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Ramaz ChkhikvadzeRamaz ChkhikvadzeKhodzha Nasreddin
Gombosuren GombojavGombosuren GombojavTimur Tamerlan
Ildar ShadayevKhodzha Nasreddin - v yunosti
Mark TumakhaniTimur Tamerlan - v yunosti
Aslan RakhmatullayevAslan RakhmatullayevKhodzha Zulfikar
Seseg B. SharapovaMamlakat-Kubaro - v molodosti
Khurgulek KongarMamlakat-Kubaro - v starosti
Anzhela GaribovaTsyganka - v yunosti
Zeinab BangiyevaTsyganka - v starosti
Seseg G. SharapovaTekina Khatun - mama Timura
Basta TsydenovOtets Timura
Irina PantaevaIrina PantaevaKutlug-Turkan aga
Tamara YandiyevaTamara YandiyevaKhanifa-Tyulpan
Makhabbat SamadovaKhanifa-Mak
Azalbek NazriyevAzalbek NazriyevPalach
Elena SanzhimitypovaPovivalnaya babka
Saydali MukhtarovTursun-Mamad
M. Zhantsan
G. Chuluunbat
D. Rinchin-Dorzh

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