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Kismet
UNITED STATES · 1955

Kismet

Vincente Minnelli
romantic comedy disguise and deception arranged marriage father-daughter relationships Arabian Nights fantasy
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Synopsis

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

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