Acting

Shamil Suleymanli

Born

1955-05-11 (71)

Place of birth

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Hotel Loo poster
10.0

Murad is a well-known psychologist, appears as an expert on various social programs. A famous singer named Aliya seduces Murad and they decide to spend their first night at a hotel. Murad, in a fit of passion, involuntarily grabs Aliya by the throat and squeezes her tightly. As a result, Aliya faints from excitement. Murad thinks that Aliya is dead and panics. He looks for ways out of this difficult situation. Finally, he is forced to call his wife, Sabina, a forensic expert, for help...

Hotel Loo

2025

No artwork available
NR

The film is based on a story inspired by ancient history and mythological elements. The plot follows several young heroes who embark on a difficult and dangerous journey to obtain the ancient and symbolically significant sword, Akinak. Throughout their adventure, they face various challenges and come to understand the true meaning of friendship, loyalty, and courage. The film places special emphasis on themes of adventure and patriotism.

AKINAK

2026

Statue poster
NR

Dursun, a Turkish man, arrives in Azerbaijan but loses everything due to alcoholism. Unexpectedly, he resembles a broken statue in businessman Bekir’s house and agrees to pose as it for money. However, the mafia, led by Abbas, tries to steal the statue, placing Dursun in the middle of chaos. In the end, he uses a clever plan to save both himself and the homeowner.

Statue

2025

Olimpia poster
NR

The film tells the heartwarming tale of Ilgar Suleymanov, a former Olympic medalist who has settled into a quiet life in his hometown. Despite having close friends and a love for fishing, Ilgar is haunted by his loneliness and lack of direction. However, when an unexpected visitor arrives at his doorstep, Ilgar's life takes an exciting and unexpected turn, leading him on a journey that will take him from Azerbaijan to the distant shores of Cuba. This poignant and uplifting film explores the universal themes of friendship, love, and the search for meaning in a touching and unforgettable way.

Olimpia

2021

Behind the Scenes: I've Been Here Alone poster
9.0

Hasan (33), who works as a sales manager in a construction company, and his wife Farida (30) have not been able to have children for a long time. After a doctor's examination, Hasan learns that he is infertile. But Hasan, who is afraid of harming his masculinity, hides this information from his wife. At the insistence of Hasan's mother, who thinks that the problem is in Sevda, they go to a midwife who lives in a village for treatment.

Behind the Scenes: I've Been Here Alone

2023

Son-in-Law VS Father-in-Law poster
NR

Sakit, the father of three daughters, cannot accept that they have already grown up and reached the age to start a family. For him, his daughters are still little children. When Sakit finds out that his eldest daughter Lala and his middle daughter Jala have someone they love, he cannot find peace. Instead of accepting the prospective sons-in-law, Sakit begins to put them through increasingly difficult and funny trials, one after another. Caught between being a father and being a father-in-law, Sakit tries both to protect his daughters and not to stand in the way of love. At the same time, he himself is still being tested by his father-in-law, Vidadi.

Son-in-Law VS Father-in-Law

2026

Sariyya poster
NR

For eighth-grade honor student Sariyya, her wedding and the geography olympiad fall on the same day. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl's struggle for education against her family's expectations.

Sariyya

2024

No artwork available
NR

The film is dedicated to the dear memory of the imam-community of the Mashadi Dadash Mosque, theologian Haji Shahin Hasanli.

Qaranlıqdan nura

2023

Mübariz poster
NR

The life and path of Mubariz Ibrahimov, The National Hero of Azerbaijan.

Mübariz

2023

No artwork available
NR

The film tells the story of young girls being lured abroad through social media, where their organs are removed, sold, and subjected to sexual exploitation.

Angels' Salvation

2020

No artwork available
NR

The events coincide with the last day of the year. Vagif, who retired a few years ago, returns from playing chess with his former deputy, who is also a recluse, and picks up a woman he knows from afar in his car. From the phone calls they receive on the way, it becomes clear that the passenger's son, just like Vagif's daughter, lives abroad with his family. During the conversation, it also becomes clear that this woman is Nigar, Vagif's former classmate with whom he studied for half a year and his first love, to whom he never had the chance to confess his love. Both of them are now widows. The day, which continues with surprise meetings, ends with both of them attending the New Year's celebration with other former classmates and their grandchildren Banuchichek and Beyrak, who came from abroad to spend the holiday with them.

Brand New Year

2024

The Last Supper poster
NR

The sudden death of his father at a dinner party organized on the eve of Alakbar's wedding, which is about to be married, creates an atmosphere of mourning instead of celebration, setting the rest of the film on a family's grieving and reliving emotions.

The Last Supper

2022

The Boy is Brave, the Girl is Beautiful poster
NR

Azerbaijan Television's "Sabah" Creative Studio has produced a feature film titled "The Boy is Brave, the Girl is Beautiful" on the occasion of the holiday.

The Boy is Brave, the Girl is Beautiful

2024

2010s · 18 titles

Additional Effect poster
7.0

After the collapse of the Soviet power in the 90s, a chemist scientist in one of Azerbaijan's scientific research institutes obtains a new solution. The scientist examines the positive and negative consequences of the chemical solution. With its help, a certain part of a person's memory can be erased and used in negative activities. At the same time, it can protect people from drug addiction and alcoholism. But the results are not as expected.

Additional Effect

2010

Baku, I Love You poster
9.0

The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery Ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Short films bring to life relationships between people, their love and longing, happy and sad moments. The main hero uniting these people, relations and different moments of life is the city of Baku.

Baku, I Love You

2015

Salt, Pepper to Taste poster
NR

A young woman seeks escape from the suffocating atmosphere at home and the Azerbaijani capital Baku is portrayed as a wonderful, blue-grey intermediate zone where modernity and tradition collide. In the words of Allen Ginsberg: "None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway."

Salt, Pepper to Taste

2019

Hail poster
8.0

The 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

Kiss of an Angel poster
NR

Everything happens in one second. The angel comes to Elhan’s dream after the car crash and gives an unforgettable life lesson. And that lesson changes his life forever.

Kiss of an Angel

2017

Steppe Man poster
6.5

One 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

Hey, Brilliant! poster
NR

Shirin unwittingly becomes entangled in a mafia heist when she comes across a stolen medallion, prompting her and her friends - relatives Şəmi, Şöşü, Fəlakət and herself - to fall into the clutches of mob boss Hacı. As they struggle to free themselves, rival gangster Topal steps in, further complicating their desperate bid for survival.

Hey, Brilliant!

2015

The Swing of the Coffin Maker poster
8.0

Azerbaijan. Yagub has nothing left but beats his disabled son Musa until a shattering message brings about a sudden turn.

The Swing of the Coffin Maker

2012

Down the River poster
8.5

Young 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

Incomplete Memories poster
4.0

An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.

Incomplete Memories

2015

Qaragöz poster
NR

Qara is a famous actor, genius at his work, a good person, but he is very frugal, extremely tight-lipped. Due to this nature, he is alone in life. But one day, his son, whom he never knew he had, comes to him and his life changes. Qara starts to like Nigar, his sidekick on stage. Of course, since everything comes down to money, he wants to hide this desire. While Qara is struggling to survive in this expensive world, one day he is faced with a choice between money and life.

Qaragöz

2018

No artwork available
NR

Last film in the trilogy.

Baku Diaries 3: Memory

2019

No artwork available
NR

We all have old birthday cassettes at home. But most of the people there are no longer here.

Baku Diaries 2: VHS

2018

Sorry, I Couldn’t Come poster
NR

The film reflects the events that took place after the prisoners in a nearby prison heard the news of Imam Hussein's martyrdom while he was in Karbala.

Sorry, I Couldn’t Come

2015

And There Was No Better Brother poster
NR

This story of two temperamentally different brothers takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku during the 1970s. The elder brother Jalil is a married postal worker who keeps bees as a hobby. Younger brother Simurg is more adventurous by nature and capable of going after his goals, not just dreaming about them. Jalil has a recurring memory: once, when he was still a kid, his mother, pregnant with Simurg, took him to a women’s sauna. When both brothers fall in love for the same beautiful girl, their differences become apparent once again.

And There Was No Better Brother

2011

Mahmut & Meryem poster
1.0

The son of a Muslim emperor, Mahmut rejects his father's values and advocates a humanitarian approach to running the empire he will inherit. For him, there are more important things than power over others - namely the love he cherishes for Meryem, the daughter of a Christian monk. Rejecting the path chosen for him, Mahmut embarks on a dangerous journey looking for his love Meryem. It is this journey through a land in turmoil which will change both Mahmut and Meryem.

Mahmut & Meryem

2013

Ambassador of the Dawn poster
NR

Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left an indelible mark on the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature . The film depicts three periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age.

Ambassador of the Dawn

2012

The 40th Parallel poster
5.0

The anthology consists of 4 short feature films: "Postscriptum", "His Father", "The Gift" and "The Black Garden".

The 40th Parallel

2016

2000s · 4 titles

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 5 titles

Sound of the Pipe poster
5.5

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

Sound of the Pipe

1975

Baladadash's first love poster
NR

The film explores the purity and nobility of first love. However, this love is unfortunately unrequited, and Baladadash (Shamil Suleymanov) lives by the words of the song featured in the film: “I would never let my love for you diminish your respect for me.”

Baladadash's first love

1974

Pages of Life poster
NR

It consists of 3 short stories: "Rivals", "Baladadash's First Love" and "Song Lesson"

Pages of Life

1975

Diploma Thesis poster
NR

The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma work. When the work has finished, the relatives of Zumrad demand Mahmud to marry her. A young artist runs away. After all, he can't marry all the models he's working with...

Diploma Thesis

1979

A Comfortable Place in the Garden poster
7.0

The film's hero is the city's famous barber, Mammadali. He is passionate about his profession. His clients are officials and famous people. A humorous and gentle man by nature, Mammadali has a difficult relationship with his wife. His wife is a teacher, a frivolous woman who looks down on her husband's profession... Although his wife and older son are indifferent toward him, he doesn't make a tragedy out of it; on the contrary, he tries to be understanding. And he has enough love for both his profession and his family. Even when his sixteen-year-old son asks him to leave the house on his birthday, wanting to be alone with his friends, he understands. Despite feeling a momentary disappointment.

A Comfortable Place in the Garden

1978

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