The Avenger of Ganjabasar

Summer 1942. Nazi troops storm the Caucasus. They are rushing to get their hands on Baku oil. An Abwehr special group called "Wartburg" has settled in the Nalchik area. In Baku, German spy Ziegel (Pavel Kadochnikov) heads to the oil fields from Maykop under the name of Soviet engineer Kashtanov. Tankers carrying gasoline begin to explo...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Mukhtar Dadashev

Cast

Shakhmar Alekperov, Shahmar Alakbarov, Gasan Mamedov

In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally bring Ashen freedom? Official selection of the Global Lens Collection presented by the...

Runtime

1h 30m

Cast

Armine Anda

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Samad Mardanov

Cast

Alasgar Alakbarov, Rza Afganly, Mustafa Mardanov

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,...

Runtime

1h 13m

Cast

Hasan Mammadov, Adil Isgandarov, Malik Dadashov

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.

Runtime

1h 29m

Cast

Yuriy Bogolyubov, Andrey Fayt, Grigoriy Shpigel