Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hamlet Xanizadeh as Patient/ Sadi Afandi/ Poet
- Eleonora Korisnaitė as Maya/ Prisoner
- Yashar Nuri as Mahmud
- Aladdin Abbasov as Zulfugar
- Ibrahim Aliyev Cast
- Zulfugar Baratzadeh as Haja Anvar
- Nasir Sadigzadeh as Mukhtar Karimli
- Mukhtar Ibadov as Salahov
- Abdul Mahmudov as Tatar Tamir
- Rahim Sadigbeyli as Zulfugar (Young)
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