Sehrli xalat (The Magic Coat)

Sehrli xalat (The Magic Coat)

Release Date:  10//1964
Country of Release:  Soviet Union
Length:  75 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV CON FAM
Release Message:  Wizard Io-Kio shows some children a magic cloak which can transport the bearer with the appropriate spell and depending on the tragedy into the past or the future.
Description:  Wizard Io-Kio comes from Moscow to Azerbaijan to celebrate with the pioneers their pioneer jubilee. He introduces some magic tricks and shows the children a magic cloak which can transport the bearer with the appropriate spell and depending on the tragedy into the past or the future. The journey to the other time and back goes only once. The bravest pioneer is allowed to try the mantle and the boy Raschid announces himself. He travels to the past and ends up in the palace of a cruel Khan who has just sentenced a grandfather to death because he has passed his palace. Rashid threw himself upon the Khan and insulted him as inhuman, whereupon his servants in Rashid assumed a jinn. Only when Rashid declares he is not a magician is he arrested. The Khan now tries in vain to explore the mystery of the magic mantle. It was only when he threatened to burn the mantle that Raschid explained the mode of operation. With the Khan he travels back to the present. Here the children try to catch the fled Khan. The Khan's palace has now become the pioneer's palace of the children, but the Khan knows all the secrets of his former palace and can always escape the children. He even captured a boy and tried to blast the palace with dynamite. At the same time he reacts distractedly to the innovations of the time and is shocked that, for example, girls are already learning to read and write. In second half of XX century a couple of student who had been called " pioneer" in Azerbaijan USSR try to make a opening after repairing in Shah Palace. Indian wizard shows up and gives a rope to pioneers as a gift for reopenning of palace. Processes starts after that.