Koroghlu

Koroghlu 1960

4.00

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

1960

It's Dangerous to Put Out to Sea

It's Dangerous to Put Out to Sea 1973

1

The film is about special sea expedition which put out to sea to deliver oil to Russia at the cost of their lifes.

1973

Maiden Tower Legend

Maiden Tower Legend 1924

5.00

The plot of the film is taken from the legend of the Azerbaijan Maiden Tower. According to legend shirvanshah fell in love with his daughter and wanted to marry her. Learning of this daughter Shirvanshah jumped from the top of the tower in the Caspian Sea.

1924

Stepmother

Stepmother 1958

5.40

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.

1958

Seven Days After the Murder

Seven Days After the Murder 1991

5.50

A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an outwardly prosperous and friendly family only seems to be pretending to be happy.

1991

By the Bluest of Seas

By the Bluest of Seas 1936

6.39

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.

1936

The Special Visit to German Clinic

The Special Visit to German Clinic 1988

1

Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him.

1988

In the Name of God

In the Name of God 1925

3.70

Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.

1925

Interrogation

Interrogation 1979

6.20

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.

1979

Execution Day

Execution Day 1990

2.00

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

The Tale of the Old Oak Tree

The Tale of the Old Oak Tree 1984

1

The film raises the problem of man's relationship to nature, the symbol of which is an old oak tree, protected by a forester from selfish people.

1984

The Native Shores

The Native Shores 1989

1

The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.

1989