Leonid Yengibarov

Dans les Carpates, au XIXe siècle. Ivan et Marichka, deux enfants, s'aiment passionnément malgré la rivalité funeste qui oppose leurs familles depuis toujours. À l'adolescence, Ivan gagne les alpages pour garder les troupeaux. Saisi d'un étrange pressentiment, il retourne bientôt au village, pour apprendre que Marichka s'est noyée dans la rivière en voulant le rejoindre. Meurtri, il finit par épouser Palagna, dans l'espoir d'oublier son infortune…

An eccentric musical comedy based on the tale of Korney Chukovsky. In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and his robbers are trying to stop them. First, they capture the doctor’s ship at sea and throw Aybolit, Avva and Chichi into the water, but they swim to Africa.

Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…

Famous Soviet Armenian clown Leonid Yengibarov stars in this film about the artistic quest of a talented circus actor.