Loading Cinehub...
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 explode in the Caspian Sea. Soviet counterintelligence agent "Khazri" infiltrates "Wartburg"...
Shahmar Alakbarov, Hasan Mammadov, Nikolay Fedortsov, Rza Takhmasib, Pavel Kadochnikov, Aleksandr Afanasev, Ingrīda Andriņa, Ismail Osmanli, Aleksandr Susnin, Khalida Guliyeva, Mukhtar Maniyev, Mikayil Mikayilov
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 Global Film Initiative.
2012

A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.
2008
The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the present day - depicting how, amid shifting social and political upheavals, they endure physical and moral persecution. It also explores human betrayal and the ways people adapt their identities to survive changing circumstances.
1998

Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him.
1988

The old shipyard repairman ust-Nazar returned to work after an illness. They were already preparing to see the old man off to retirement. But Ust-Nazar was able to convince his superiors of his efficiency, and they instructed him to repair the old boat. By spring, the boat was ready for sailing. When a huge ice floe threatened the oil rig during an ice break, the old man, without thinking about his own life, went with a battering ram to the ice block.
1983

A young girl is trying to save an island which is endangered by nearby construction.
1980

The oil industry is emerging in Baku. A poor young man named Jalil accidentally becomes the owner of an oilfield site. But unexpected wealth brings him one misfortune after another. His friends turn away from him, and the woman he loves leaves for another. A hero who dreamed of a home will never create a family.
1980

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.
1979

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.
1975

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
1974

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, believing that it will establish justice.
1971

After the novel of the same name of B.Bayramov. The film is about life during war, about postwoman.
1968

Young border guard Sergeant Farrukh is in love with Izran, a girl from a neighboring village. Izran's father does not believe in the seriousness of the young man's intentions and forbids his daughter from seeing him. But after seeing Farrukh in action, arresting border violators, he changes his attitude towards the border guard. Farrukh pursues the violator. A landslide drives them both into a ravine. The violator tells him about his life, and the sergeant recognizes him as his father, whom he believed had died at the front...
1967

After the novel "Sahil Amaliyyati" (The operation of "Side") of the same name of Jamshid Amirov. The film is about foreign secret service's operation and it's revelation by security organs.
1966

Rasim, a young mechanic, meets Surayya and falls in love with her. But he is dragged into Shirmammad's wrongdoings; Shirmammad is Surayya's father and the leader of a gang of poachers. Realising his fault, Rasim tries to convince Surayya to stop trafficking in stolen fish. After a long period of reflection, Rasim becomes aware that he cannot go against his conscience, even for love's sake.
1966

The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.
1966

This is a story about World War II. The adultery of her husband didn't wreck her life because she could stand all difficulties with a little help of her faithfull friends.
1958

The hero of the film coming to the village for a short while decided to stay there by his medical duty.
1957

The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.
1938

About a young engineer's struggle for new, scientifically proven methods of working in drilling mines. His main opponent is a drilling foreman who prefers to be guided by his "sixth sense" in his work. In the end, engineer Geydar wins a double victory: he proves the superiority of new drilling methods over traditional ones and wins the heart of the old foreman's daughter. The film is considered banned.
1935