

Man Casts an Anchor
1967-12-10 · 75 min · ★ 7.0
The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.
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- Directors
- Arif Babayev
- Production companies
- Azerbaijanfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Alasgar IbrahimovRamiz
Hadjimurad YegizarovMurad
Hokuma GurbanovaShamama
Ismail EfendiyevShirali
Lyudmila MarchenkoNina
Arkadi TolbuzinMoroz
Zemfira TsakhilovaAdila
Aleksandr PetrovVadim
Yuri PerovAndrei
Mukhtar ManiyevMajid
Eduard AkopovGarabala
Fikrat Aliyevdoctor
Talat Rehmanovoilman
Yusif Veliyevoilman
Rafael Dadashovoilman
Zemfira SadykhovanurseTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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