The Avenger of Ganjabasar

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.

The Last Mountain Pass

July 1971 •Azerbaijani

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.

In a Southern Town

January 1969 •Azerbaijani

Murad, a young man, lives by the old ethical norms that are still valid in the suburbs of his city. He had promised Tofig, his childhood friend, to give him his sister as a wife, but Tofig is in love with another girl. He forgets the promise and takes the girl home. Murad is offended. According to the code of honor, he must take revenge. One of the first films ever produced in the Soviet Union to challenge the sociopolitical establishment.

The Winds blow in Baku

January 1974 •Azerbaijani

The Fires of Baku

May 1950 •Russian

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.

Execution Day

February 1990 •Azerbaijani

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.

The Shadows are Crawling

September 1958 •Azerbaijani

I wasn't Beautiful then

December 1968 •Azerbaijani

After the novel of the same name of B.Bayramov. The film is about life during war, about postwoman.

Sound of the Pipe

December 1975 •Azerbaijani

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.

Babek

December 1979 •Azerbaijani

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

Nizami

June 1982 •Azerbaijani

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

Fair Wind

July 1973 •Azerbaijani

The Invincible Battalion

December 1965 •Azerbaijani

The film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

June 1981 •Azerbaijani

The story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Teymur is in love with Farzali bey's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bey's son, Farzali bey still promises that if Teymur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Teymur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help ...

Koroghlu

October 1960 •Azerbaijani

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

The Poet

January 1991 •Azerbaijani

Sabuhi

September 1941 •Azerbaijani

In the Fire

December 1978 •Azerbaijani

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

Dada Gorgud

September 1975 •Azerbaijani

Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.

The Bay of Happiness

April 1978 •Azerbaijani

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