Maysara's Tricks

Maysara's Tricks (Maysaraning ishi, 1990) is an Uzbek fantasy comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Two well-off friends, Kadiev and Aglyamov, sit through a historical film and start grumbling about life in the present day.

Then comes a small blast, and the clock spins backward. The pair wake up in robes and turbans, dropped into the thick of a far-off age where their familiar cunning suddenly buys them nothing. Directed by Melis Abzalov, with Sayram Isayeva, Obid Yunusov and Ato Mukhamedzhanov.

It's a playful body-swap-in-time fable told in an Eastern key — light, wry and steeped in Central Asian color. A good pick for anyone fond of Soviet cinema from the Uzbek studios. Stream Maysara's Tricks (1990) online on iFILM.