
Production
Mushfig Hatamov
Born 1969-05-06 · Agdam, Azerbaijani SSR [now Azerbaijan]
Acting credits
Behind the camera
8.5Young Ruslan rows for a team coached by his father Ali, who places many demands upon his son and is continually dissatisfied by his performance. But when tragedy strikes, his father is overcome with emotions he doesn’t know how to deal with. Debut director Asif Rustamov treats the heavy topic with remarkable subtlety and discretion, emphasizing the characters’ carefully elaborated psychology.
Down the River
2014
6.5One steppe man is living far from the cities closely communicating with the nature. His father teaches him all wisdom of the steppe life. After his father’s death he meets a young woman, who comes from the village. Meeting her is a new page in his life and a huge step into the big and unfamiliar life ahead...
Steppe Man
2012
7.0Seymour Tahirbekov is an international chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan. Having won the Candidates Tournament, Seymour earns the right to challenge the defending world champion Skroten Gudmonson in the World Chess Championship match. With a few weeks left before the championship match, Seymour’s psychological and emotional state deteriorates under escalating abuse and pressure to succeed by any means.
The Island Within
2020
NRThe film tells about school life, the mutual relations of teenage schoolmates, views on friendship and life, and the formation of these views.
The Lesson
2016
6.9Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.
Pomegranate Orchard
2017
NRThe film depicts a mystical event happening to a family who lived in Aghdam, during the USSR.
Reflection
2015
NRThe film tells the story of a former colonel who ends up in a nursing home, where he loses his money. The events that befall the colonel, who is suspicious of his own friends, become the subject of laughter.
The Last Stop
2014
NRThe film tells the love story of two young people - Azerbaijani Ghafar and Georgian girl Leyla - who lost their lands, loved ones and homes in the war. Ghafar is mistakenly taken to Georgia together with the kiosk. When he wants to buy back his kiosk, he meets Leyla, a Georgian girl who is homeless like him. The film is dedicated to all people who lost their homes in wars. The film was shot in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Eviniz Abad
2018
8.0The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War. The film tells about the heroism of the sons of Azerbaijan, who fought for the Motherland to the last drop of blood in spite of everything in the Karabakh war.
Hail
2012
NRArif, who was sent to a mental hospital by his neighbors, escapes from there and returns to his native neighborhood. However, his neighbor Agharza has taken over his house. In this situation, Arif tries to resolve the issue in his own way, and the true faces of all the neighbors are eventually revealed.
Bomb
2007
NRMaqsad lives a simple life with his wife Giyamat and son Sohbat, but suddenly things change when his son Maksim from a Russian woman comes to see his father from Russia.
Interpapa
2006
NRThe main character Ramiz falls in love with a girl. His friend Taleh helps him to find out the location of the girl's house. When he is looking for a friend, Ramiz falls into a dream. In his dream.
Wedding
2005
6.3The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.
Nabat
2014
NRRasim is a theater director. However, since the theater was closed, him and the cast were left unemployed. Due to impotence, they start to engage in fraud. Since they can only play roles, in order to earn a living, these fraudulent actors are forced to create their characters in real life. That is, they see the events in real life and play their role on the stage of life.
Halal Money
2008
5.0The film tells the story of a provincial teacher from blue blood, Abbas. The desperate desire of having his own son makes him so indifferent to orphan in his custody and even to deadlock situation of his beloved spouse Vafa. But everything changes, when he himself causes Vafa's death. Now in the otherworld Abbas is craving to have back all the things that he couldn't protect in this world.
Red Garden
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
My Little Prince
2019
NRThe main characters – Mike Kovalski, a young American of Azerbaijani descent and a young business woman Aydan Bagirzade face a number of similar situations. They meet by accident and their meeting is full of surprises.
Too Many Coincidences
2017
4.7A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
Black & White Nights
2013
NRThe events took place in the early 19th century on the eve of the fall of the Azerbaijani khanates. The events coincided with the period of the division of Azerbaijan into two.
The Dervish's Diary
2013
5.0The anthology consists of 4 short feature films: "Postscriptum", "His Father", "The Gift" and "The Black Garden".
The 40th Parallel
2016
4.0An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.
Incomplete Memories
2015
5.0"At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
Inner City
2016
6.0The film tells the story of a man, who was in prison when the invaders occupied his native land. When he gets out from prison, he tries to find ways to visit his parents’ graves, which are located on the occupied lands now.
A Man of the Third Day
2017
NRAlong with the dangerous adventures, the film also reflects the love of two young heroes. As in Romeo and Juliet, they are the children of two opposing sides.
Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You! 1919
2013
