Hostage poster

Hostage

5.0(1)20061h 32m2

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.

Share WhatsApp Telegram
Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
—
Language
Azerbaijani

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

Azerbaijan

Videos

No extra videos are listed for this title yet.

Release dates

  • AzerbaijanAZ

    • Theatrical1 Jan 2006
  • EgyptEG

    • Premiere6 Dec 2006
  • SwedenSE

    • Premiere10 Oct 2005

Frequently asked questions

Hostage was released on 1 January 2006.

Member reviews

Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

Member comments

0

Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

More like this