Yevgeni GURIEV
Евгений ГУРЬЕВ
Evgueni GOURIEV
USSR, 1925, 19mn 
fiction
Baghdad Thief
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Багдадский вор

 

 Le Voleur de Bagdad

 Bagdadskiy vor

 
Directed by : Yevgeni GURIEV (Евгений ГУРЬЕВ)
Writing credits : Nikolay AGNIVTSEV (Николай АГНИВЦЕВ)
 
Cast
Fyodor KURIKHIN (Федор КУРИХИН) ...Ptitsyn
 
Cinematography : Anatoli SOLODKOV (Анатолий СОЛОДКОВ)
Production : Proletkino
 

Plot synopsis
A parody of the film of the same name with the participation of Douglas Fairbanks, advertising Mostorg products. Once, having seen enough of the adventures of the protagonist in The Baghdad Thief, a certain citizen Ptitsyn involuntarily begins to imitate the behavior, movements and habits of the Fairbanks hero: he trips a passerby, tries to steal at least something from people passing by, imagines, sitting in a pub, that instead of crayfish there are huge monsters in front of him, and he fights with them. Soon he imagines that the Mastorga department store is an ideal oriental bazaar where you can find absolutely everything. Therefore, when all the visitors leave at night, Ptitsyn sneaks in to steal everything he can carry in his hands. Having forgotten, he spends the whole night in this thieves' paradise, and does not notice when the morning comes. And in the morning the police come, and, having removed the unfortunate thief from the magic carpet (who for some reason does not want to fly), takes him to the department.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2022