Mukhtar Maniyev
Birth : 1935-04-04, Baku, Azerbaijan
Death : 2016-12-22
Kazim
Jabbar
Father
The events occur during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address, two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin to identify the soldier, they find out that he is, in fact, Armenian - former citizen of Baku.
Hadji Hasan
Mukhtar
Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.
Anvar
The film is about sportsman who tried to avenge to his friend's murder.
Zirpi
Moshu’s family and their neighbours go to a seaside motel to spend their summer vacation. Things get awkward after Sara loses her engagement ring.
The film is about lad who joined the underworld, after coming from Afghan war.
Hasan
The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan.
Karimov
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.
Seyidrza
A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.
Karim
The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.
Israfil
A lonely old woman remember her youth, the days when she worked as a prostitute because of the poverty during the Second World War.
Podpolkovnik
After fulfilling his duty in Afghan War, Zaur returns to his home Baku. He is trying to clarify the truth when he heard that his father was arrested.
Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
Rizvan
A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
Afandiyev
Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.
Ramiz
The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Egit Iskenderov) finds an ancient lamp placed in the jaw. For the talented but poor character Rustam, this lamp shatters the sky. With the help of jinn, the young man suceeds: his play is made on anchor; his girlfriend, Maya (Natalia Tagiyeva), agrees to marry him, and the bar is in the apartment. But Rustam wants to achieve everything. When the jinn throws away his "owner," he unveils the secret: a person must believe in his own power, and there must be a strong desire to create miracles.
Mammad
Biopic about general Hazi Aslanov, who died fighting Germans in WW2.
Mehdi
Gochu
After the story of the same name of S. Veliyev. It's devoted about life concerns of oil workers and their children.
The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.
Neighbour
Safar
Madina is a young married woman who is mentally strong despite the problems she encounters.She has no children and her relationship with her husband is bad, although he loves her.She makes carpets which is a way for her to express her feelings. One day, she meets a man working in a circus. She gets to know him better and becomes transformed by him as he helps her improve her husband and the carpets she creates.
Gazi
The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.
Prisoner
The story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Teymur is in love with Farzali bey's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bey's son, Farzali bey still promises that if Teymur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Teymur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help ...
Officer
After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.
Balahuseyn
The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in love with bey's daughter.
Khalil
Ibn Muaz
It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.
Khadija's Brother
The Unfinished Song
Zumrad's Brother
The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma work. When the work has finished, the relatives of Zumrad demand Mahmud to marry her. A young artist runs away. After all, he can't marry all the models he's working with...
Khoshev
Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.
Abulfaz
The film is about relations between different people.
After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
Akshad
The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
Shahlar
Elkhan
Musa
The film is about the young people just finishing school.
After the novelette of the same name of Huseyn Abbaszadeh. The film is about friends' meeting who fought together as a partisans in Belorussian detached force.
Bolshevik
The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.
Hasan
The novel was written by Ilyas Afandiyev. The film is about road builders.
Miranshah
The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.
The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
Karim
Anarchist
Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.
Hadjibala
Police are conducting a homicide investigation after man dies in car accident.
Najafov
Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other processes are shown in the course of the war.
Tahir
Murad, a young man fails the entrance exam to the Institute and starts working at the meat factory. His cousin Rustam, a worker on a building site, fights with him against the dishonest people who sell pieces of meat from the factory. After a series of dramatic situations, Murad and Rustam manage to uncover the thieves.
Prisoner/Jabirov
The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.
Majid
The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.
The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
The film is about the boy who got under bad when influence after losting his family he faced with tragic events.