The Joke (1990)
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.
Top billed cast
Rasim BalayevRahimov
Jeyhun MirzayevMammadov
Yashar NuriMammad
Mukhtar ManiyevKarimov
Xuraman HadjiyevaKhalilova
Elena KostinaAlya
Aleksandr Sharovski
Loghman Karimov
Latifa AliyevaMother
Lala BaghirovaRimma
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