01 Jun 2008
Fortress
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.
The Family
January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.
Top Billed Cast
Hasanagha Turabov Ismail
Svetlana Metkina Alya
Rafiq Əliyev Garik
Təhminə Məmmədova Rana
Nataliya Tağıyeva Sofiya Mikhaylovna
Mehriban Zəki Elmira
Fuad Poladov Mob Leader
Aqil Quliyev Igor
Nadir Əbdülrəhimbəyov
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