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15/05/2004

BBC Two - Kismet

Howard Keel stars in this lavish musical as a poor poet with supposed mystical powers.

Lavish Arabian Nights-style musical charting the mixed fortunes of a poor poet with supposed mystical powers. Based around the music of 19th-century composer Alexander Borodin.

Lavish musical charting the mixed fortunes of a poor poet with supposed mystical powers. The poet is pressured into using his special gifts to arrange a marriage between the son of a scheming vizier and a princess. But then fate - or kismet - plays its hand. 

The memorable tunes, including And This is My Beloved and Stranger in Paradise, are based on the work of the 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin.

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