The Family

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1998 / 95min.

Rating1

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Rustam Ibragimbekov

Ramiz Hasanoghlu

Actors

Svetlana Metkina

Fuad Poladov

Natalya Bagirova

Dzhakhangir Mekhdiev

Rafik Aliyev

Agil Guliyev

Nadir Abdulrahimbeyov

Hasanagha Turabov

Mekhriban Zeki

Sayavush Karimi

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