Mayak Kerimov

Acting

Mayak Kerimov

Born — Died

1944-11-30 — 2011-11-04

Place of birth

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

The Basement poster
NR

After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her husband, an architect by training, was ruining his life with idleness and melancholy. Unable to bear the boredom of life together, she leaves home...

The Basement

1990

The Poet poster
7.5

The film is dedicated to the memory of the great Azerbaijani poet Muhammad Fuzuli by the relic-gazalakh, and the lyric poet Aliaga Vahid. The poet's life is presented in chronological order. The authors do not clearly indicate the names of the people who covered Vahid. They tried to create a generalized artistic image using some of the master poet's masterpieces from his difficult life.

The Poet

1991

Tahmina poster
6.0

This 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

The Window poster
6.0

The film reveals the contradictions between the "educating" teachers and the "educated" students in the school, which is actually an orphanage and a boarding school, where lawlessness, violence, hypocrisy, and cruelty prevail. Forced to live in such contradictory conditions, but unable to adapt to these conditions, little Ahsan, who misses his native home, finds the only way out - he perishes by throwing himself out of the window. The film was shot on the basis of the motifs of Isi Malikzade's story "Nowruz Holiday of Wanderers".

The Window

1991

Execution Day poster
4.0

After the novel of the same name of Yusif Samadoghlu. The film is about three intervals in time: the distant past, yesterday and today, about innocent victims, about repression, and conquest of different countries.

Execution Day

1990

My White City poster
NR

The movie reflects the ecological environment of Sumgayit. After the collapse of the Soviet power, the old problems of the "new era" still persist. Although it is not mentioned in the movie, the new generation of people living in this city, which is named as Sumgayit, especially near poisonous plants, are born crippled and sick. There is a wide range of symbolic expressions in the film and there are interesting dream scenes.

My White City

1994

1980s · 17 titles

40° Hot in a Shadow poster
9.0

The film is about village people, about their love for their land, their honesty in relations.

40° Hot in a Shadow

1988

Business Trip poster
NR

After the story of the same name of Rustam Ibrahimbeyov.

Business Trip

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taste

1984

Yellow Leaves in Summer poster
8.5

The talented teacher Shams arrives in a remote mountain village. He manages not only to establish a normal educational process at the school, but also to have a tremendous moral influence on the students.

Yellow Leaves in Summer

1986

The Fellow Countryman poster
7.0

Two countrymen meet by chance in a big city. One of them left the village long ago and settled in the city. The other just arrived in town...The clash of characters and life circumstances can dramatically change a person's destiny. How to find your place in this world? How to hear the voice of your heart?

The Fellow Countryman

1987

The Story of One Billiard-Room poster
8.0

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

The Story of One Billiard-Room

1988

Uzeyir's Life poster
5.2

The historical film about Azerbaijan composer Uzeyir Hadjibeyov's life.

Uzeyir's Life

1981

Additional Trace poster
8.3

A young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the crime. He must find the killer, Nargiz, and investigate the motive for the crime, together with homicide investigator Yagubov.

Additional Trace

1981

I Want to Get Married poster
4.8

A young craftsman Shamil lives in a small town. Everyone respects him for his good hat-making skills and his kind and cheerful disposition. He falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Kamyab, and she loves him back. But the father doesn’t want his daughter to marry a poor man. Shamil’s friends help him kidnap the girl. However, the friends betray Shamil for the sake of money and the operation fails.

I Want to Get Married

1984

The Silver Truck poster
NR

Madina is a young married woman who is mentally strong despite the problems she encounters.She has no children and her relationship with her husband is bad, although he loves her.She makes carpets which is a way for her to express her feelings. One day, she meets a man working in a circus. She gets to know him better and becomes transformed by him as he helps her improve her husband and the carpets she creates.

The Silver Truck

1982

Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree poster
NR

After the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli.

Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree

1984

The Jaguar poster
6.7

The hero is a cadet of a military school where future defenders of the Pinochet regime are trained. Having survived the collapse of the philosophy of brutality, Jaguar (so he is nicknamed by the cadets for his firm and independent character) joins the ranks of fighters against the existing regime.

The Jaguar

1987

The Window of Sadness poster
5.2

Film about growing up in a small village in Azerbaijan.

The Window of Sadness

1986

Painful Roads poster
6.0

The movie is based on Azerbaijani folk tale "Malikmammad and the Three Princes".

Painful Roads

1982

Nizami poster
7.5

The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.

Nizami

1982

The Native Shores poster
NR

The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.

The Native Shores

1989

The Road Story poster
4.7

After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.

The Road Story

1981

1970s · 11 titles

Dada Gorgud poster
3.4

Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.

Dada Gorgud

1975

The Price of Happiness poster
7.0

Rukhsara and her son Ibrahim are very concerned about the future of their five daughters growing up at home - Gulkhar, Khalida, Sakina, Zohra and Sevinc. Rukhsara's dream is to give each of the girls a dowry, to send them off to their husband's house according to the "rules”, as they say. Ibrahim knows very well that family happiness is not measured by dowry and shiny furniture. However, for the sake of his mother, he tries to earn dowry money for the girls. The sisters also understand that the foundation of happiness is not laid by dowry. If you hold hands with the person you love, you can overcome all the trials of life with confidence...

The Price of Happiness

1977

Night Over Chile poster
4.7

A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.

Night Over Chile

1977

The Avenger of Ganjabasar poster
9.8

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.

The Avenger of Ganjabasar

1974

Nasimi poster
7.4

The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.

Nasimi

1974

The 1001st Tour poster
NR

A musical TV film about the creation of the Song Theater by Rashid Beibutov, telling humorous stories related to it.

The 1001st Tour

1974

The Lion Ran Away from the House poster
5.5

A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam.

The Lion Ran Away from the House

1977

Find That Girl poster
8.0

Police are conducting a homicide investigation after man dies in car accident.

Find That Girl

1970

The Life Tests Us poster
NR

After the novel of the same name of Vidadi Babanli. Rashid, a young man, fails the entrance exam to the Institute and started to live by independent life, about people round him.

The Life Tests Us

1972

The Unfinished Song poster
NR

The film tells the story of a singer who is devoted to his friends and attached to the stage, valuing this more than his talent, vocal skills, and training in opera from professionals.

The Unfinished Song

1979

The Mother in Law poster
6.8

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

The Mother in Law

1978

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