根据俄罗斯作家莱蒙托夫的故事改编。一个游吟诗人在路途上花了一千个白天和黑夜,随时随地尽其所能为人们带来快乐。他的流动的生活方式看似毫无目的,其实不然。他希望在一千个日日夜夜之后,能够挣到足够的钱举办婚礼......如果新娘还在等他的话。
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promis七界传说后传e not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.