Directing
Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh
Born March 22, 1893 · Shamakhi, Shemakha uezd, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]
Died November 16, 1938 · aged 45
No biography available.
Known For
An Eye for an Eye · 1925An Eye for an Eye
★ 6.81925
MovieDramaThriller
The film is about the search for foreign intelligence agents and secret police's struggle with them.
The Owl · 1924The Owl
★ 1.01924
MovieDrama
The film is about the class struggle in the village between the various strata of society on the eve of Soviet powerformation.
The Game of Love · 1935The Game of Love
★ 8.01935
MovieComedyRomance
The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.
In the Name of God · 1925In the Name of God
★ 4.51925
MovieDrama
Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.
Hadji Gara · 1929Hadji Gara
★ 8.01929
MovieComedyDrama
After the comedy of the same name of Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
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