Russian centre postpones film festival

The second film is ‘The White Sun of the Desert’. This Central Asian action film is about the Red Army fighting the counter revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also among the favourites of several generations. With Russian cosmonauts, it is the tradition to view this film before going to outer space. A demobbed soldier, Sukhov, is making his way through the desert to his home village. The band of the brutal Abdullah is raging in this area. Sukhov is charged with escorting the chief’s harem, because Abdullah intended to kill his women rather free them.  The third film is ‘The Barber of Siberia’. The fourth film is ‘Aladdin’s Magic Lamp’. A Russian film version of the oriental fairy tale. A wicked wizard appealed to the stars to tell him the name of the man who would find a magic lamp capable of performing miracles. The stars responded “It’s Aladdin.”

The beautiful daughter of Sultan lives in Baghdad. Anyone who dares to look at her is to be executed. But the willful and capricious princess commands. Aladdin look and fell in love with her. And the magic lamp with the genie in it.