
Acting
Shukufa Yusupova
Born 1954-05-30 · Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Acting credits
NRA young woman with a broken family is looking for happiness. She wants to remarry to get rid of loneliness, so she decides to use the Internet. The film also reflects the impact of the current transition period, economic and political changes on the intellectual families of Baku. But more women and their psychology came to the fore. The psychological crises of a modern woman, family relationships are reflected in the film.
Liars
2008
NRAzerbaijani mother and daughter fleed Yerevan during the conflict and agree to exchange homes with an Armenian family in Baku. There is one condition: the elderly Armenian woman must stay in the house. The two women, isolated between walls built by blood and hostility, begin to search for a way to live together over time.
The Room of God
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5.1This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing visions of the world, yet sharing true and lasting friendship.
The Birthday Party
1977
5.3Film about growing up in a small village in Azerbaijan.
The Window of Sadness
1986
NRThe film is about war in Garabagh and when we look at wounded solider we see our son, brother or father.
The Hope
1995
5.0Before his death, the jeweler wrote a will in which he mentioned the famous diamond "Abbas Shah." But when the heirs discovered his personal safe, the diamond was not there. Without hesitation, they turned for help to the detective Drongo, who, as everyone knows, is able to unravel the most mysterious thing. The detective immediately established a circle of suspects and began to screen out those who had an iron alibi. But suddenly his list began to decline for a completely different reason - someone began to kill the suspects one by one...
Dance of Good and Evil
2016
NRAfter the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
Straight to the Volcano
1977
Rena is a victim of rape as a young woman. This trauma becomes a lifelong tragedy for her. Years later, when she meets the man who brought this game upon her, Rena can only talk about what happened to her on a hotline.
Etimad telefonu
2001
NRAfter the play of the same name of Anar.
The Exam
1987
NRA father about to die remains silent. Everyone is tortured by his silence. His sons accuise themselves or rather, accuse each other. The closest relatives feel like strangers in their own family. The father understands that he is the reason for the family drama. When he was young, he was attracted by wrong ideas and committed a sin for which fate now punishes him.
A Most Ordinary Story
1988
8.0The life of the protagonist of the film, Farid, changes completely after what happened in a mountain village, where a pedestrian escaped from the responsibility, which he thought was dead.
Legend of Gumushgol
1985
NRAfter 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
6.3Being unable to shoot a film about Azerbaijani wedding customs, hopeless director decide to make a film about real wedding event. Though the stubborn father of bride resists approval the plan.
The Kidnapping of Groom
1985
3.0A funny adventures of three little brothers.
Asif, Vasif, Ağasif
1983
NRAbout adventures of two schoolboys dreaming to find treasures.
The Chest Found from the Fortress
1982
6.5The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided with border between northern and southern Azerbaijan.
Broken Bridges
2004
6.3The 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
NROn one of the dull ordinary days of people’s lives, the heroes of the film search for and find a way out of the situation. How does this happen?
It Must Be So
1982
7.0Rukhsara 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
5.5The 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
NRA love story between a middle-aged French theater director and a young Azerbaijani actress. He's achieved success and fame, heads a theater, ladies adore him yet he remains single afraid of commitments. Camilla is his last chance. The Frenchman is ready to go to a lot of trouble in order to see her (rush to Azerbaijan at the first opportunity, abandoning his obligations at home, keep waiting for secret dates - the lady is married) and yet is reluctant to lose his freedom...
A Trap for the Ghost
2011
9.0Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
Another Life
1987
5.5A 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
NRAfter the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli.
Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree
1984