Shahmar Alakbarov

Acting

Shahmar Alakbarov

Born — Died

1943-08-23 — 1992-08-12

Place of birth

Ganja, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Straight to the Volcano poster
NR

After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.

Straight to the Volcano

1977

The Exam poster
NR

After the play of the same name of Anar.

The Exam

1987

The Stab in the Back poster
5.6

Young inspector investigates a murder in small town.

The Stab in the Back

1979

Nəğməkar torpaq poster
NR

The film, shot with the participation of masters of the arts, presents the colorful and sunny palette of Azerbaijan to the audience through the language of cinema. The film features mugham music, modern pop songs, and jazz compositions based on folk melodies.

Nəğməkar torpaq

1981

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

I Loved You More than Life poster
8.8

Biopic about general Hazi Aslanov, who died fighting Germans in WW2.

I Loved You More than Life

1985

Film credits

1980s · 12 titles

Nəğməkar torpaq poster
NR

The film, shot with the participation of masters of the arts, presents the colorful and sunny palette of Azerbaijan to the audience through the language of cinema. The film features mugham music, modern pop songs, and jazz compositions based on folk melodies.

Nəğməkar torpaq

1981

I Loved You More than Life poster
8.8

Biopic about general Hazi Aslanov, who died fighting Germans in WW2.

I Loved You More than Life

1985

August is Coming Soon poster
6.3

The story of the period when teenagers' characters are formed. After finishing eighth grade, the film's protagonist, Arif, decides to become a sailor, like his late father. The young man's path to his dream will not be easy, but his willpower and perseverance will help him overcome all obstacles and achieve his cherished desire.

August is Coming Soon

1984

Uzeyir's Life poster
5.2

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

Uzeyir's Life

1981

Seventeen Years Old Boy poster
NR

The film is about the hero of the Soviet Union, chechenian Khanpasha Nuradilov.

Seventeen Years Old Boy

1986

Old Men, Old Men... poster
7.0

Follows the old man who retired, unable to adapt to city life, and his return to the village.

Old Men, Old Men...

1982

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

Wait for Me poster
7.0

The 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

Saddle these Horses poster
4.0

The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.

Saddle these Horses

1985

Nizami poster
7.5

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

Nizami

1982

Last Night of Last Year poster
6.0

The film is dedicated to a mother who protects the warmth of her hearth, the peace and well-being of her family.

Last Night of Last Year

1983

Astrologer's student poster
NR

The film is about a teenager who wants to get rich easily and, because of his greed, ends up in ridiculous situations.

Astrologer's student

1983

1970s · 21 titles

The Stab in the Back poster
5.6

Young inspector investigates a murder in small town.

The Stab in the Back

1979

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

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

Straight to the Volcano poster
NR

After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.

Straight to the Volcano

1977

İntizar poster
NR

In 1919-1920, in the events of the revolution. The story of a mother's heart is from the pull and breadth. The strong and rich image of the mother separates from her son, and then boldly loses him, another guy takes her son. She believes that this child will come and replace her son, who will be worthy of her son. The mother tries to raise him as a brave, noble, and kind person, like her own son.

İntizar

1970

My Seven Sons poster
4.2

This film was based on Samad Vurgun's "Komsomol poem". Seven sons, like seven samurai become the seven komsomols (communist leaders) who were sent to a village to establish Soviet power. Seven sons become the romanticized images of people's heroes ready to take revenge.

My Seven Sons

1970

The Boys of Our Yard poster
NR

The film is about the yard boys getting a little older and thinking about their independent lifes.

The Boys of Our Yard

1973

The Return of the Violin poster
6.0

During the WWII a group of children are trying to save Stradivarius violin from Nazis.

The Return of the Violin

1973

The Winds Blow in Baku poster
7.5

Summer 1942. Nazi troops storm the Caucasus. They are rushing to get their hands on Baku oil. An Abwehr special group called "Wartburg" has settled in the Nalchik area. In Baku, German spy Ziegel (Pavel Kadochnikov) heads to the oil fields from Maykop under the name of Soviet engineer Kashtanov. Tankers carrying gasoline begin to explode in the Caspian Sea. Soviet counterintelligence agent "Khazri" infiltrates "Wartburg"...

The Winds Blow in Baku

1974

Firangiz poster
NR

The secretary of the district committee, Firangiz, is cautious and demanding, as well as very harsh and inconsistent. She cannot tolerate not only her compatriots, but even her husband, the researcher Murad, and her entire family.

Firangiz

1975

Four Sundays poster
NR

After the novelette of the same name of Huseyn Abbaszadeh. The film is about friends' meeting who fought together as a partisans in Belorussian detached force.

Four Sundays

1974

The Strange Man poster
8.0

A young lawyer named Vakil Ahmed earned the nickname "The Oddball" for his honest and truthful words, as well as the purity of his soul. Many people in society give and receive bribes, including Vakil Ahmed, which causes him to lose his faith. Thanks to the worker Salim, Vakil Ahmed is released from prison.

The Strange Man

1979

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 First Hour of Life poster
NR

The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.

The First Hour of Life

1974

Babek poster
4.8

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.

Babek

1979

The Bay of Happiness poster
8.0

The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.

The Bay of Happiness

1978

The Golden Goose poster
NR

The film is about the fishing island.

The Golden Goose

1972

The Last Mountain Pass poster
1.0

Based 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

1960s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera