Acting
Elmira Shabanova
Born November 1, 1940 · Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR (age 85)
No biography available.
Known For
Surayya · 1987Surayya
★ 7.01987
MovieDramaTV Movie
Suraya, a young milkmaid from a remote mountain village, is searching for her fiancé Seifetdin in the city. She learns that he has long been married and has a son who lives with his elderly, sick grandfather, as Seifetdin is serving a sentence for hooliganism. Surya takes the boy to the village to care for him, but then Seifetdin's wife shows up...
The Circle · 1989The Circle
★ 7.01989
MovieDrama
The film is about political events which took place in 1989.
The Scream · 1993The Scream
1993
MovieDramaWar
Shot during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, "Fəryad" is only one of its kind. Following the Khojaly Massacre, Ismayil, an officer tasked with collecting the bodies, crosses enemy lines to avenge the brutal murder of a local schoolgirl. There he gets captured by Armenians and waits for the day to be exchanged for an enemy POW.
The Basement · 1990The Basement
1990
MovieDramaRomance
After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her husband, an architect by training, was ruining his life with idleness and melancholy. Unable to bear the boredom of life together, she leaves home...
The Witness · 1990The Witness
★ 1.01990
MovieDramaCrime
The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan.
Tahmina · 1993Tahmina
★ 6.01993
MovieDramaRomance
This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society.
Good Bye, Southern City · 2006Good Bye, Southern City
★ 7.72006
MovieDrama
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
Mystery of the Ship Clock · 1983Mystery of the Ship Clock
★ 6.01983
MovieAdventureMystery
The chain of adventures of a young ten-year-old Baku boy Alik who ran away from home led him to Odesa. Here, the boy made friends with his peers and many other people, and learned his first life lessons. He returned home accompanied by his father and mother, for whom their son's escape became a test of the family's strength.
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The Circle · 1989The Circle
★ 7.01989
MovieDrama
The film is about political events which took place in 1989.
Arif's Friend
Strange Time · 1996Strange Time
★ 6.71996
MovieDrama
The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.
Orkhan's Mother
The Morning · 1960The Morning
1960
MovieDramaHistory
After the novel of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
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