
Acting
Malik Dadashev
Born 1924-06-07 · Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Acting credits
1.0Based 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.
The Last Mountain Pass
1971
5.5The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
Koroghlu
1960
6.4The struggle of the people against the shakh (king) who seized all of land and water resources.
The Secret of the Mountain
1959
7.0The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in love with bey's daughter.
Wait for Me
1980
3.7After the novelette of the same name of Magsud Ibrahimbeyov.
Mesozoic Story
1976
9.0The film consists of several novels reproducing the most vivid pages of the biography of the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan Nariman Narimanov (1870-1925).
The Stars Don't Fade
1971
NRShot 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 Scream
1993
NRThe film is based on the play of the same name by Mirza Fatali Akhundov, the founder of Azerbaijani dramaturgy.
Haji Kara
2002
6.0This 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.
Tahmina
1993
NRThe film is about the yard boys getting a little older and thinking about their independent lifes.
The Boys of Our Yard
1973
NRMiddle East. Revenge of three teens for their unjustly executed fathers leads to national riot and capture of American military airfields.
The Planes Didn't Land
1964
7.0Young 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...
Dağlarda Döyüş
1967
5.9Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
The Scoundrel
1989
NRThe moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.
Junior Lieutenant
1996
10.0The film is about man falling in love with young girl and his wish to be young too.
The Husband of Young Woman
1988
NRThe movie almanac is dedicated to athletes. Three short stories ("Through the Mountain Forest", "The Top", The Force of Gravity") tell about mutual help, friendship, public duty and the formation of the character of a real person.
Who Do We Love More?
1964
NRYoung heroes come to relax in the seaside village and help law enforcement officers track down poachers.
Say You Love Me
1977
4.0After the novel of the same name of I.Shykhly. The film is about new intelligenzia in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Tempestuous Kura
1969
9.0The film addresses universal issues, urging people to stay vigilant, distinguish good from evil, truth from falsehood, and to view life with open eyes.
Hello from the Other World
1991
7.2The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.
The Twenty Six Comissars
1966
4.7Murad, 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.
The Last Night of Childhood
1968
NRAfter World War II, a group of young “robbers” redistributes the wealth of the rich to the poor while protecting the honor of women, especially the wives and sisters of soldiers at the front. Though branded outlaws by the law, their criminal yet benevolent deeds win the tacit approval of the local community.
Execution is Postponed
2003
NRThe events in the film take place in and around the family of Khosrov Atayev. Khosrov Atayev's wife, Dilshad Khanum, who lives an honest and upright life, is a woman obsessed with fame and money. This moral gap between them, and the mistakes made by Dilshad, eventually put an end to their family life.
The Atayev Family
1978
1.0After the literary work of the same name of Nizami Ganjavi and Mahammad Fuzuli. The film is about pure love of two young people.
Leyli and Majnun
1961