The Darvish Detonates Paris (1976)

Ulduz

The film is about of village life. After the same name operetta musical comedy.

Bakhtiyar

The film is about oilman who had beautiful voice. He didn't attach great importance to his friends is advice to get special music reward. But he changed his attitude to art under the influence of his friends.

The Birthday Party

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.

Sevil

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.

I Want to Get Married

After the story of same name of A.Hagverdiyev. Film is about young man called Shamil. He is not so rich but everybody respects him for his good mood. He fells love with Kembay's (he is richest treader in this town) daughter-Gulsum. But his father doesn't let them to be together.

Uzeyir's Life

The historical film about Azerbaijan composer Uzeyir Hadjibeyov's life.

The Unfinished Song

The film tells the story of a singer who is devoted to his friends and attached to the stage, valuing this more than his talent, vocal skills, and training in opera from professionals.

The Mother in Law

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

The Road Story

After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.

The Kidnapping of Groom

Being unable to shoot a film about Azerbaijani wedding customs, hopeless director decide to make a film about real wedding event. Though the stubborn father of bride resists approval the plan.

The Dream

A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.

The Husband of Young Woman

The film is about man falling in love with young girl and his wish to be young too.

The Scoundrel

Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.

Arshin Takes a Wife

Set in Baku at the turn of the 20th century, a young successful businessman Asgar wishes to marry. He wants his bride to be the choice of his heart, however, Azerbaijani tradition restricted him from communicating with the lady as a lover before marriage. So Asgar decides to disguise himself as a mere cloth peddler and the young woman Gulchohra falls in love with him.

I Compose a Song

A story about ten years old Sona - a very talented young singer whose parents are not so happy about her singing.

The Labour and Rose

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

The Joke

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

The Cloth Peddler

Set in Baku at the turn of the 20th century, a young successful businessman Asgar wishes to marry. He wants his bride to be the choice of his heart, however, Azerbaijani tradition restricted him from communicating with the lady as a lover before marriage. So Asgar decides to disguise himself as a mere cloth peddler and the young woman Gulchohra falls in love with him.

By the Bluest of Seas

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.

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.

The Last Night of Childhood

Murad, a young man fails the entrance exam to the Institute and starts working at the meat factory. His cousin Rustam, a worker on a building site, fights with him against the dishonest people who sell pieces of meat from the factory. After a series of dramatic situations, Murad and Rustam manage to uncover the thieves.

If Not This, Then That

Popularly known by the name of the main character, "Mashadi Ibad" was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman Gulnaz who falls in love with a young man Sarvar but is obliged to marry someone else.

Diploma Thesis

The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma work. When the work has finished, the relatives of Zumrad demand Mahmud to marry her. A young artist runs away. After all, he can't marry all the models he's working with...

Where is Ahmad?

When his parents try to marry him to their neighbors' daughter, Ahmad runs away from home and his family try to find him.

The Frenchman

The film is about people who don't like national traditions and being Azerbaijani after returning from Europe.

The Magic Gown

In the second half of the 20th century, a class of students prepare for the 40th anniversary of the Pioneer Organization in the old palace of Shah. Events unfold when the famous magician Io-Kio presents the magic gown that will throw a group of students into the future.

Wonderful Apples

The film is about the gardener who cultivated magic apples which brought luck to people.

The Game of Love

The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.

It Must Be So

On one of the dull ordinary days of people’s lives, the heroes of the film search for and find a way out of the situation. How does this happen?

The Great Support

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

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

Stepmother

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.

In the Name of the Law

The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.

The Tempestuous Kura

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 Burden

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

The Bay of Happiness

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

The Shadows are Crawling

Young scientist Jamal Zakhidov is convinced that the ruins of the ancient city of Aran are located in Azerbaijan. Zakhidov is seeking to organize an expedition to the area where he believes Aran is located. Zahidov's friend, a young archaeologist named Jalil, is also well versed in geology. He believes that the rocks he accidentally found at the foot of Gyzyl-Gaya contain valuable materials. But Imam-zade, a secret agent of a foreign intelligence service, steals these samples. The expedition members meet an old man named Murtaz. The old man recognizes Imam-zade as the son of Suleiman-bek, the former ruler of these lands, who killed geologist Karimov, who was conducting research here in 1920. Realizing that he has been exposed, Imam-zade blows up the cave in an attempt to destroy the expedition. But the locals rescue the expedition members. Imam-zade is detained by MGB officers. Uranium is found in the rocks discovered by Jalil at the excavation site...

Business and Pleasure

Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.

The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight

After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of National State Security.

Additional Trace

A young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the crime. He must find the killer, Nargiz, and investigate the motive for the crime, together with homicide investigator Yagubov.

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.

Man Casts an Anchor

The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.

The Preservation of Secret

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An Old Ferry

The story of the conversion of uncultivated lands in one of the Azerbaijani villages into vineyards, the serious structural changes in agriculture that occur as a result, and the emergence of moral and psychological problems. It also discusses the socio-economic problems facing grape growers in our republic.

The Avenger of Ganjabasar

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.