
Directing
Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh
Born 1893-03-22 · Shamakhi, Shemakha uezd, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]
Acting credits
6.8The film is about the search for foreign intelligence agents and secret police's struggle with them.
An Eye for an Eye
1925
1.0The film is about the class struggle in the village between the various strata of society on the eve of Soviet powerformation.
The Owl
1924
Melodrama tells about complex human relationships.
Prince Temir Bulat
1916
Behind the camera
8.0The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.
The Game of Love
1935
4.5Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.
In the Name of God
1925
8.0After the comedy of the same name of Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
Hadji Gara
1929