

The Joke
1990-01-10 · 136 min · ★ 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.
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- Directors
- Yefim Abramov, Nizami Musayev
- Production companies
- Azerbaijanfilm, Tiskino
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Rasim BalayevRahimov
Ceyhun MirzäyevMammadov
Yashar NuriMammad
Mukhtar ManiyevKarimov
Xuraman HadjiyevaKhalilova
Elena KostinaAlya
Aleksandr Sharovski
Loghman Karimov
Latifa AliyevaMother
Ajdar HamidovAhmad
Rafik AliyevKomsomol leader
Arif KerimovMurtuzov
Sadykh Gusejnovretired lieutenant colonel
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