On Distant Shores

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.

1958-08-18 | az

My Seven Sons

This film was based on Samad Vurgun's "Komsomol poem". Seven sons, like seven samurai become the seven komsomols (communist leaders) who were sent to a village to establish Soviet power. Seven sons become the romanticized images of people's heroes ready to take revenge.

1970-09-07 | az

The Twenty Six Comissars

The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.

1966-02-16 | az

The Fires of Baku

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.

1950-05-08 | ru

Sound of the Pipe

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

1975-12-01 | az

Fair Wind

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...

1973-07-04 | az

Execution Day

After the novel of the same name of Yusif Samadoghlu. The film is about three intervals in time: the distant past, yesterday and today, about innocent victims, about repression, and conquest of different countries.

1990-02-11 | az

In the Fire

Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.

1978-12-01 | az

The Poet

1991-01-01 | az

Our Teacher Jabish

Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other processes are shown in the course of the war.

1969-12-30 | az

The Bay of Happiness

The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.

1978-04-02 | az

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.

1981-06-29 | az

Babek

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.

1979-12-02 | az

Nizami

The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.

1982-06-01 | az

Baku's People

The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.

1938-06-04 | az

The Peasants

1939-12-28 | az

The Inquiry is Going On

After the novel "Sahil Amaliyyati" (The operation of "Side") of the same name of Jamshid Amirov. The film is about foreign secret service's operation and it's revelation by security organs.

1966-12-17 | az

Koroghlu

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

1960-10-10 | az

Wait for the Signal from the Sea

The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.

1986-09-14 | az

From Two Worlds as a Keepsake

In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally bring Ashen freedom? Official selection of the Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.

2012-01-01 | en