Nasreddin in Bukhara (Насреддин в Бухаре)

Tashkent Kino-studio feature films.

NASREDDIN IN BUKHARA

Screenplay: L. Solovyov, V. Vitkovich.

Directed by J. Protazanov.

Operator: D. Demutsky Artist: V. Yeremyan.

Music: M. Ashrafi, B. Arapova.

Starring: Nasreddin - Lev Sverdlin.

Emir - K. Mikhailov Jafar, the loan shark - E. Heller.

Niaz, the potter - V. Zaichikov Guljan - M. Mirzakarimova.

Bakhtiar, vizier - S. Kayukov Yusuf, a blacksmith - A. Talipov.

Arslanbek - M. Lyarov Hussein-Husliya - N. Volkov

keeper of Ali chaikhana - A. Ismatov.

The guards of the Emir: M. Mirakilov, I. Bobrov, A. Pirmuhamedov.

Where are you coming from? From Baghdad. From Baghdad.

So many people are going to Bukhara.

- Today is Bazaar! - No, no, no!

Today, our illustrious Emir will preside over His merciful court.

Hold him! Stop him!

This son of a sin has not paid any tanga!

Ay, yay, yay. Where are you coming from? And why?

I'm coming from Damascus. Oh, illustrious Sir.

My relatives live here in Bukhara.

So, you're going to visit relatives! Pay a guest fee!

But I'm not coming as a guest. I have an important business here.

Business, ha? Then you'll pay a guest fee and a business tax.

C'mon, pay, pay, pay, pay!

Now, contribute something to decorate the mosque for the glory of Allah,

who has kept you safe on your journey here.

That's it! Here, here!

God bless you!

Stop! Stop!

Wait, wait! Stop! Stop!

And who will pay the fee for your donkey?

Yes, who will pay the fee for you?

If you go to visit relatives,

so your donkey is going to visit relatives, too? Pay up!

That's right! O, wise chief!

Indeed, my donkey has many relatives in Bukhara! -Yes.

Otherwise, Emir would have been overthrown a long time ago,

and you would have been executed for your greed!

Wait, stop! Get him!

I'll get you! I know who you are.

Our lord Emir will preside over his court today.

Today?

Yes, if you do not come, you will be escorted under guards.

Stop! Wait!

For the sake of Allah, don't take the water in a jug! You'd scare it!

Who?

A bird.

Where?

There!

Look yonder! I see the most beautiful bird in the world!

Yes, where? Shh... You'd scare it!!

There! There! There, see?

It's not a bird, it's a frog.

- What? A frog? - Yeah!

If all frogs have such black eyes, so thin eyebrows and delicate cheeks,

I myself would be a "croak-croak" frog.

Here I see the most beautiful girl in the world!

And I see two donkeys!

Only I didn't see who's ears are longer.

Our ears are shorter than your eyelashes, beauty.

A frog!

Here! Come here! Give us a hand!

What happened? Who's drowning? Some rich man is drowning.

We've been trying to save him. Come here! Give us a hand!

Hurry up with that rope! Wait a minute! What are you doing?

We're trying to save that men! You don't save a rich man like that.

- Why not? - Here! Look, look!

- See this? - Yeah!

Here! Take it! Take it! Here, take it!

That's how you ought to do it. And you yell "Here, here."

He's drowned! Don't worry! Here, take it!

Look, look! Here, take it...

Here! Take it! Take it! Here, take it! That's how to save a rich man.

Drowned again! -Here! Take it! Take it! Here, take it!

Don't worry, you will not drown! Here, take it...

You are my savior!

Come here. I will reward you.

Here!

But I could swim, without your help.

Stop! Here's half a tanga. Buy yourself a bowl of pilaf.

Here! Take it! Take it! Here, take it!

Stop! Stop!

It's here!

Take it!

And you say, "Here, come here!"

What are you waiting for, Muslims?

We are waiting for a righteous and merciful judgment

from our lord and master Emir!

Righteous Emir!

Clear the road for Emir!

Clear the road for Emir!

Clear the road for Emir!

And yet we're in a better position...

If I fall to the ground, I would not be hurt!

But if he falls from that stretcher, he'd be full of bruises.

Yes, yes... I understand!

Allow me, Great Emir, to announce your decision

which I read from your face.

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate,

Lord of the Faithful and our ruler Emir

has granted a great mercy to blacksmith's guild,

allowing them to feed the guards,

and thus giving his subjects an opportunity

to be thankful to our illustrious Emir every day and every hour!

Oh, wise Emir!

Oh, the wisest of the wise!

Oh, wise, with the wisdom of the wisest...

Enough! Git!

Blacksmith Yusuf, dared to show ingratitude.

Mm...

So, the Emir graciously decides:

Blacksmith Yusuf, in order to show his repentance,

will be awarded with 200 backlashes.

Well, that blacksmith, has got righteous and merciful

judgment of our wise Emir.

Come here, worthy Jafar, Emir will hear you.

Don't cry, Guljan, I will ask Emir to give us a reprieve.

Oh, great lord! You shine on us like the sun!

This man owes me one hundred tangas,

and three hundred tangas interest on that debt.

Total - four hundred tangas.

The deadline to pay his debt, expired this morning,

and he was unable to pay. A reprieve!

I just ask for a reprieve from great Emir.

Allow me, Great Emir, to announce your decision...

which I read from His face.

By law, if someone does not pay a debt on time,

then his whole family goes into slavery to him to whom he owes!

But the mercy and generosity of our Lord is boundless.

Although the deadline to pay the debt has expired,

the Emir confers potter Niyaz - a reprieve.

One whole hour!

Praise the great mercy of the Emir, potter Niyaz!

Oh, generous Emir!

Oh, kind Emir!

Har, Har, Har, Har, Har, Har.

Oh, most generous Emir!

Emir is angry. Take your donkey away!

Angry! Ay, yay, yay! What can I do?

I can not forbid my donkey to praise the wisdom of our Emir!

Quite, quite!

Calm down! Hush! Hush! Oh, you!

Beauty, at noon today

you and your father will come into my home!

Exactly in one hour, I will come back for you.

Stay here and do not go away!

Why don't you cry?

Why should your daughter cry, potter?

It's useless to cry, because tears does not turn into silver coins.

We have to try to get the money!

You are mocking at us, stranger!

I don't know anyone in this town, but I'll try to get it!

To get it! Four hundred tangas in a strange city!

I'll get the money!

I'll get it for you!

Sit here and don't go anywhere!

Where are you going, my good man? Why?

This is not a place for a donkey? This is not an ordinary donkey.

He asked me to show him the palace of the Emir.

That's not allowed! Take it away! Where?

- Not allowed? - Of course not!

Sorry, I'll show you the palace next time!

Well! Very good!

Oh, Bul-Bul, you're making a great progress!

Why do you put that book in front of your donkey? -Shh...

I'm teaching him to read.

How could it be that a donkey learn to read?

This is not a common donkey.

God gave him a sharp mind and a remarkable memory.

It's just he can not turn the pages. I have to help him.

The Emir called me once and asked:

"Can you teach my favorite donkey to write?"

I'll try. Where is it?

He showed it to me. I checked his abilities... and I said:

"Oh, illustrious Emir! This is a wonderful donkey!"

He is as clever, as any of your ministers!

Maybe even as you are.

I will teach him. He will know as much as you know.

And maybe even more.

"But for this, I need twenty years!"

Then the Emir gave me a purse of gold, and said:

"If after twenty years, my donkey would not be reading,

"I would cut off your head." Oh!

Unfortunate!

You will loose your head!

After 20 years, someone is bound to die. Either I, or donkey, or Emir.

You couldn't be the Nasreddin, could you?

I urgently need four hundred tangas, exactly four hundred.

Well, who will give me four hundred tangas? Who? Well?

I will pay back. Nasreddin, I've got no money.

But I can give you this hat, it's new. Rahmat! (Thanks!)

- Take this from me. - Rahmat!

- Take this from me. - Rahmat!

Rahmat! Rahmat! Rahmat! Rahmat!

Here, take my belt!

And from me, take it, Nasreddin. Rahmat!

Take this, Nasreddin!

Take this from me, Nasruddin. Rahmat! Little horseman!