Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
Hatam
Gazanfar
Mashalla
Irada
Alasgar
Molla
Hadji
Alasgar's Secretary
Hatam's Ex-wife
Hatam's Colleague
Hatam's Colleague
Driver Mukhtar
Secretary
Neighbour
18 Aug 1958
The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.
18 Feb 1979
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
29 Aug 2014
The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.
01 Jul 1988
A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
01 May 1993
This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society.
18 Jul 1971
Based on a novel by Farman Karimzade, the movie shows the life in an Azerbaijani village under the Soviet rule in 1930s. Here two former "beys" (land owners) are opposing each other. One is loyal to the ideology of the past and can't reconcile himself to the new power, to second rejects the past and accepts the power of the Bolsheviks, believing that it will establish justice.
01 Jun 2008
A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.
03 Dec 1978
The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.
20 Feb 1981
After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.
08 Oct 1985
Being unable to shoot a film about Azerbaijani wedding customs, hopeless director decide to make a film about real wedding event. Though the stubborn father of bride resists approval the plan.
06 May 1991
Moshu’s family and their neighbours go to a seaside motel to spend their summer vacation. Things get awkward after Sara loses her engagement ring.
24 Oct 1989
A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.
09 Dec 1958
The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.
29 Dec 1957
The hero of the film coming to the village for a short while decided to stay there by his medical duty.
08 Jul 1970
The film takes place in Baku in 1918-19 and then several years later. The film is based on the opera of the same name by Fikret Amirov. Sevil became the first film opera in the history of Azerbaijani cinema.
01 Dec 1978
Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.
04 Jul 1973
Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of the local commune...
17 Dec 1961
The film is about the girl who was lost during the war and her return to her motherland after some events.
14 Sep 1986
The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.
25 Jul 1981
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