{{Short description|Kazakh folk fairy tale character}} '''Aldar kose''', (native name {{langx|kk|Алдар көсе/Aldar köse}}) is a Kazakh folk fairy tale and name of main character.<ref name="Utegenov2006">{{cite book|last=Utegenov|first=Quatbay|title=Karakalpak Folk Tales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DatcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT16|date=15 February 2006|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4122-3702-4|page=16}}</ref> He is the collective image of the sly but very kind man. In fairy tales he is a swindler, cheating the greedy rich, evil Khans and helping the poor and weak people.<ref>Қазақ әдебиеті. Энциклопедиялық анықтамалық. - Алматы: «Аруна Ltd.» ЖШС, 2010.{{ISBN|9965-26-096-6}}</ref><ref name="Lawrence1947">{{cite book|last=Lawrence|first=Sir John|title=Life in Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yM5oAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=G. Allen & Unwin|page=232}}</ref> The ''Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan'' refers to him as a "creative liar".<ref name="KassymovaKundakbayeva2012">{{cite book|last1=Kassymova|first1=Didar|last2=Kundakbayeva|first2=Zhanat|last3=Markus|first3=Ustina|title=Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbRsMq03dh0C&pg=PA95|date=18 May 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7983-6|page=95}}</ref> 270px|thumb|Postage stamp of Kazakhstan with Aldar kose, 2003

==In theatre and film== A play ''Aldar-Kose'', a folk-comedy by Shakhmet Khusainov, was published in the early 1940s.<ref name="BrisbaneChaturvedi2005">{{cite book|last1=Brisbane|first1=Katherine|last2=Chaturvedi|first2=Ravi|last3=Majumdar|first3=Ramendu|title=The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 5: Asia/Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2qKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA320|date=16 August 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-92978-8|page=320}}</ref> In 1964 a Soviet film simply entitled ''Aldar-Kose'' was produced by Sh. Aimanov.<ref name="Burkitbai2007">{{cite book|last=Burkitbai|first=Ayaghan|title=Kazakhstan: encyclopedic reference book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqQUAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Kazakh Encyclopedia, Ministry of Culture and Information|isbn=978-9965-893-00-1|page=149}}</ref> In Turkmenistan a children's film, ''Prikluchenia Aldar-Kose'' (''The Adventures of Aldar Kose''), was released in 1970.<ref name="Abazov2007">{{cite book|last=Abazov|first=Rafis|title=Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y3Sk7GeUe5oC&pg=PA124|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33656-0|page=124}}</ref> *"Aldar-Kose / Shaven Impostor" (1964) *. Aldar-Kose (cartoon, 1976) *. As Aldar-Kose outwitted tiger (animation, 1976) *. "Aldar-Kose" (2011) * .Animation Series "Aldar Kösenіñ köñіldі oqigalary" - 83 series. Production Studio Azia Animation (2009-2011) Authors: Igor Kraus and Arthur Kraus.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811100946/http://www.kazakhfilmstudios.kz/kz/films/archive/feature/aldar_kose] — Алдар-көсе мультфилмі {{Portal |Children's literature}}

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