The Golden Goose

Interrogation

February 1979 •Azerbaijani

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.

Tahmina

May 1993 •Azerbaijani

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.

On Distant Shores

August 1958 •Azerbaijani

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.

In Front of a Closed Door

July 1981 •Azerbaijani

The Basement

December 1990 •Azerbaijani

After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her husband, an architect by training, was ruining his life with idleness and melancholy. Unable to bear the boredom of life together, she leaves home...

The Hope

January 1995 •Azerbaijani

The film is about war in Garabagh and when we look at wounded solider we see our son, brother or father.

Last Night of Last Year

July 1983 •Azerbaijani

The film is dedicated to a mother who protects the warmth of her hearth, the peace and well-being of her family.

The Peasants

December 1939 •Azerbaijani

The Telephone Operator

July 1962 •Azerbaijani

The film is about young girl and her first love.

Garden Season

February 1985 •Azerbaijani

Baku's People

June 1938 •Azerbaijani

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

Sevil

July 1970 •Azerbaijani

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.

Real Friend

December 1959 •Azerbaijani

The film is about two fishermen who went through difficult ordeal during the shipwreck.

In the Fire

December 1978 •Azerbaijani

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

The Birthday Party

February 1977 •Azerbaijani

This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing visions of the world, yet sharing true and lasting friendship.

The Burden

January 1995 •Azerbaijani

The film is about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Agha Musa Naghiyev and Hadji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Dağlarda Döyüş

May 1967 •Azerbaijani

The Tempestuous Kura

April 1969 •Azerbaijani

After the novel of the same name of I.Shykhly. The film is about new intelligenzia in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Great Support

December 1962 •Azerbaijani

After the novellette of the same name of M.Ibrahimov. The film is about a man who trusted his subordinates.

If I Die, Forgive Me

October 1989 •Azerbaijani

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.