Top billed cast
Alasgar AlakbarovAşıq Göydəmir
Mustafa MardanovTəhməz / Menşevik
Rza DarabliHacı Həsən- Boris BaykovPetra
Rza AfganliAbbas
Sidgi RuhullaPristav
Ali Gurbanovağ saçlı
Mohsun SananiEldar
Khairi Emir-ZadeMehmandar bəy- Tamara IsgandarovaÜlfət
Similar to The Peasants
Caucasia (2007)
After her husband's death, a widow returns to Moscow with her mother-in-law, unaware that a depressed passenger is determined to blow up the train en route
Tahmina (1993)
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.
Another Life (1987)
Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
The Last Mountain Pass (1971)
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.
On Distant Shores (1958)
The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.
Beast (1994)
The movie tells about the tragedy of miserable people who turned to dogs. A group of people who desperately seeks for a job is abducted and forced to labor like slaves.
Matteo Falcone (1960)
Matteo Falcone is an Azerbaijani short drama film based on Prosper Merimée's like-named story from 1829. Matteo Falcone is a successful Corsican, who lives with his wife Giuseppa and 10-year-old son Fortunato. One day he leaves home with Giuseppa, leaving Fortunato alone.
The Scoundrel (1988)
Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
The Labour and Rose (1962)
The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.
Pomegranate Orchard (2017)
Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.
Interrogation (1979)
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
If I Die, Forgive Me (1989)
A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.
From Two Worlds as a Keepsake (2012)
In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally bring Ashen freedom? Official selection of the Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.
My Seven Sons (1970)
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.
The Last Night of Childhood (1968)
Murad, a young man fails the entrance exam to the Institute and starts working at the meat factory. His cousin Rustam, a worker on a building site, fights with him against the dishonest people who sell pieces of meat from the factory. After a series of dramatic situations, Murad and Rustam manage to uncover the thieves.
Shared Bread (1969)
While there is famine during WW2, a boy with mom far away, tries to stay strong.
Nabat (2014)
The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.
You Can't Take an Island with You (1980)
A young girl is trying to save an island which is endangered by nearby construction.
The Devil under the Windshield (1988)
A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
Our Great-Grandfather's Grandfather (1981)
Too old grandpa is being celebity by news maker who came from centre. But then he recollected something weird things about his missus .