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Morning Star (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Morning star' is a 1959 Soviet ballet film directed by Roman Tikhomirov, based on a folk tale, and featuring the Kyrgyz State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
Synopsis
An evil witch, Ai Dai, using magic, switches bodies with a beautiful young woman, Cholpon, and uses her new form to seduce the young prince Nurdfin.
Cast
* Reina Chokoyeva as Cholpon
* Uran Sarbagishev as Nurdfin
* Nurdin Tugelov as Temir Khan
* Bubusara Beyshenalieva as Ai-Dai
* Sapar Abduzhalilov as Genie
Reception
Upon the film's release in the United States in 1962, the New York Times wrote of it positively, saying:
As a co-production of the Leningrad and Frunze Film Studios, the picture certainly moves [...]. The dancers go to town, and for once (on screen, anyway) a ballet heroine, Reina Chokoyeva, conveys real terror. But the incredibly mercurial Bibisara Beishenalieva, as the sorcerer, goes the whole company one better by suggesting that she's about to take off into space.
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