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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.
Cast
Rasim Balayev, Ceyhun Mirzäyev, Yashar Nuri, Mukhtar Maniyev, Xuraman Hadjiyeva, Elena Kostina, Aleksandr Sharovski, Loghman Karimov, Latifa Aliyeva, Lala Bagirova, Ajdar Hamidov, Rafik Aliyev
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