Arif Kerimov

Acting

Arif Kerimov

Born

1954-04-22 (72)

Place of birth

Salyan, Baku, Azerbaijani SSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

The Truth of the Moment poster
5.0

Based on real events, telling about the murder and investigation of the head of the special department Shamsi Rahimov. The events are presented against the political background of 1994-1995 - these are the October, March rebellions of the Javadov brothers and everything related to the history of Azerbaijan in this period of time.

The Truth of the Moment

2003

Girls poster
NR

Baku. The beginning of the 21st century. The reality of the time comes to life through the eyes of four ladies. Each of these girls has her own destiny, her own world, her own outlook on life. Although their characters are different, there is a higher force that binds them together: friendship! But who are these girls?

Girls

2007

No artwork available
NR

Habil is a simple man. He works at the Ministry of Taxes. But after the murder of his friend Rok, his life changes completely. He promises to finish the research that his friend couldn’t. But this path he has chosen is very dangerous and cruel.

Yoxlama

2007

No Such Thing poster
NR

The film tells the story of two amateur musicians, Kamran and Majnun, whose roads cross with Tamilla and Sara, a grandmother and her granddaughter and the events following this acquaintance. As a result of an unexpected event, a well-known sports commentator is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a rock musician who has not found himself, and a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's disease with a graffiti lover.

No Such Thing

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Qayınanamız

2015

National Bomb poster
8.5

In capital city Baku, eminent editor Yusef Abranov and director Mehmet are determined to get their latest movie made by any means necessary, after being shut down by the bankrupt national studio. Following various schemes, the only way left to raise the cash is to marry off Yusef’s son to the daughter of the rich guy who’s bought Yusef’s bizarre, mirror-filled house.

National Bomb

2004

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Come to Your Senses poster
NR

The period of dissolution of the parliament in the country is described. Former members of parliament are in chaos, they don't know what to do, how to live after this. He hopes that he will be able to overcome the financial crisis he is facing next...

Come to Your Senses

2020

Come to Your Senses poster
NR

The period of dissolution of the parliament in the country is described. Former members of parliament are in chaos, they don't know what to do, how to live after this. He hopes that he will be able to overcome the financial crisis he is facing next...

Come to Your Senses

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

Apathy 2 poster
NR

The main character of the film, Akif, escapes from an orphanage to find his mother. On this painful journey, with an uncertain ending, the protagonist faces numerous challenges. The swift intervention of a prosecutor’s office employee raises many questions for the audience about the essence of life. Apathy-2 delivers a powerful "slap" to the mentality of bringing children into this world thoughtlessly.

Apathy 2

2025

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

Axtarış poster
NR

Dedicated to the dear memory of the heroes of the Patriotic War that began on September 27, 2020.

Axtarış

2021

The Key poster
NR

Umid, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so Umid still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.

The Key

2022

2010s · 6 titles

No Such Thing poster
NR

The film tells the story of two amateur musicians, Kamran and Majnun, whose roads cross with Tamilla and Sara, a grandmother and her granddaughter and the events following this acquaintance. As a result of an unexpected event, a well-known sports commentator is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a rock musician who has not found himself, and a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's disease with a graffiti lover.

No Such Thing

2018

Gulyabani poster
NR

The events in the film take place in a village where ghosts often appear. The story between a Turkish journalist who comes from Turkey to film this ghost and his Azerbaijani companions develops in an unexpected way.

Gulyabani

2018

Nazli poster
7.0

Nazli, despite being very intelligent and educated, prefers whims, luxurious living, night clubs, and an expensive lifestyle. Nazli's father Shamil is a serious businessman, faithful to tradition. He does everything he can to help his daughter start a family life. However, starting a family is not part of Nazli's plans. After Nazli's night out, Shamil's patience runs out. He sets a condition for his daughter: Either Nazli will get married, or Shamil will deprive his daughter of her wealth. After that, Nazli's adventures begin...

Nazli

2017

No artwork available
NR

Anthology consists of 5 short films: "Underground Passage", "Clouds", "Path of Light", "Five Minutes", "The Violinist".

Baku Nights

2015

Red Garden poster
5.0

The 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

Ayaqqabı Əməliyyatı poster
NR

Shoemaker Gadir is known among the people for his stubbornness. His friend's son, businessman Amrulla, convinces all the shops in the area except Gadir's shoe shop to sell. Realizing that he will not be able to convince Tars Gadir, he plays a trick on him. One day, he offers him a job and gives him money as an advance. Gadir, who wants to send his daughter to a festival in Baku and needs money, has to accept Amrulla's offer and pawns his shop. As a result, the job is not done and Gadir loses his shop.

Ayaqqabı Əməliyyatı

2016

2000s · 9 titles

National Bomb poster
8.5

In capital city Baku, eminent editor Yusef Abranov and director Mehmet are determined to get their latest movie made by any means necessary, after being shut down by the bankrupt national studio. Following various schemes, the only way left to raise the cash is to marry off Yusef’s son to the daughter of the rich guy who’s bought Yusef’s bizarre, mirror-filled house.

National Bomb

2004

The Dream poster
5.0

A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.

The Dream

2001

Cavid ömrü poster
NR

The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.

Cavid ömrü

2007

Good Bye, Southern City poster
7.7

The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.

Good Bye, Southern City

2006

Obituary poster
NR

The film follows the news of the illness of the institute's department head, Professor Abdulla, spreading throughout the institute with lightning speed. Shamil, who hears from Dr. Mamish that his condition is absolutely critical, begins to prepare an obituary for Professor Abdulla, and even appeals to other officials to have himself appointed to his position.

Obituary

2001

No artwork available
NR

Sharif Qurbanaliyev’s tv comedy film.

Proposal

2005

Invitation poster
NR

Jafar, a bank employee who receives invitations to five weddings and is looking at his salary, is left in a desperate situation. The only reason is money again. Finally, an earthquake saves Jafar from these weddings. The film criticizes our unnecessary customs and traditions at weddings and funerals. Also, while watching the film, the proverb "Extend your leg according to your blanket" comes to mind.

Invitation

2003

Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan poster
NR

A full-length feature television film based on one of the 12 stories of "Dade Gorgud Dastani".

Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan

2000

Egg poster
NR

A comedy film directed by Ramiz Hasanoglu.

Egg

2003

1990s · 11 titles

Both a Visit and a Business poster
7.0

Geography teacher Mustafa and his wife visit Istanbul to meet his long-lost cousin, and maybe sell some goods while they're at it.

Both a Visit and a Business

1995

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 Joke poster
5.8

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

The Joke

1990

Beast poster
10.0

While looking for a job, a group of people end up in a private residence where they are forced to become dogs.

Beast

1994

The Frenchman poster
NR

Story of a painter hiding in the attic claiming to be French and refusing to speak Azerbaijani even with his family. To return him to his roots, his family and in-laws try different methods.

The Frenchman

1995

All For The Best poster
8.0

The events occur during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address, two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin to identify the soldier, they find out that he is, in fact, Armenian - former citizen of Baku.

All For The Best

1997

This Wonderful, Wonderful World poster
NR

After the country transitions to a market economy, the psychiatric hospital is left without funding. The chief doctor (Yaşar Nuri) releases the patients to their homes. However, the outside world turns out to be even more insane than the patients themselves. Seeing the state of society, the patients are forced to return to the hospital. Although this film portrays the lives of people with mental illnesses, it actually uses dark humor to highlight the ugliness and shortcomings in our society and everyday surroundings.

This Wonderful, Wonderful World

1999

Fright poster
NR

This film, which is in the genre of psychological drama, tells the story of an artist who is shaken by the changes in life.

Fright

1998

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

"Yapon" və yaponiyalı poster
NR

1944, Japan. One of the kamikazes, by misfortune, survives. When he jumps with a parachute, he lands in Nardaran — right in the house of Gulbala, who is nicknamed “the Japanese.” When the representative of the State Security Committee learns of this unusual incident, he intervenes, saying: “This matter is under Stalin’s control; we must keep the Japanese alive,” and begins the operation. From then on, the funny stories continue.

"Yapon" və yaponiyalı

1990

The Man with Green Glasses 2 poster
NR

Nepotistic Gafar again takes action and investigates and learns that another relative, a man named Feyzulla, lives in the United States. Feyzulla writes a reply letter to Gafar, informing him that he will soon come to Baku. Gafar again gathers his old relatives together and opens the matter. At the same time, things get a little complicated when containers belonging to an American named Mr. Feyz arrive in Baku. Maybe Mr. Feyz is Feyzulla himself?...

The Man with Green Glasses 2

1999

Series credits