The Winds blow in Baku

The Fires of Baku

1950

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.

In a Southern Town

1969

Murad, a young man, lives by the old ethical norms that are still valid in the suburbs of his city. He had promised Tofig, his childhood friend, to give him his sister as a wife, but Tofig is in love with another girl. He forgets the promise and takes the girl home. Murad is offended. According to the code of honor, he must take revenge. One of the first films ever produced in the Soviet Union to challenge the sociopolitical establishment.

The Peasants

1939

The Twenty Six Comissars

1966

The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.

Wait for the Signal from the Sea

1986

The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.

The Chest Found from the Fortress

1982

About adventures of two schoolboys dreaming to find treasures.

Execution Day

1990

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.

In the Fire

1978

Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.

Babek

1979

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.

Saddle these Horses

1984

The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.

The Bay of Happiness

1978

The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.

Mystery of the Ship Clock

1983

"The Mystery of the Ship's Watchman" (Azerbaijani: 'Gemi saatinin sirri') is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani Soviet feature film directed by Azerbaijani director Rufat Shabanov. It is a co-production of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studios and Azerbaijanfilm named after Jafar Jabarli. The main character of the film is ten-year-old Alik. The chain of adventures of a young Baku boy who ran away from home led him to Odesa. Here, the boy made friends with his peers and many other people, and learned his first life lessons. He returned home accompanied by his father and mother, for whom their son's escape became a test of the family's strength.

Nizami

1982

The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.

Our Teacher Jabish

1969

Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other processes are shown in the course of the war.

The Shadows are Crawling

1958