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Execution Day
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Execution Day

1990-02-11 · 132 min · ★ 4.0

Drama · History

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.

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Directors
Gyulbeniz Yusuf Azimzade
Production companies
Azerbaijanfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Hamlet XanizadehHamlet XanizadehPatient/ Sadi Afandi/ Poet
Eleonora KorisnaitėEleonora KorisnaitėMaya/ Prisoner
Yashar NuriYashar NuriMahmud
Aladdin AbbasovAladdin AbbasovZulfugar
Ibrahim Aliyev
Zulfugar BaratzadehHaja Anvar
Nasir SadigzadehNasir SadigzadehMukhtar Karimli
Mukhtar IbadovSalahov
Abdul MahmudovAbdul MahmudovTatar Tamir
Rahim SadigbeyliZulfugar (Young)
Idris RustamovIdris RustamovGasim
Zemfira SadykhovaZemfira SadykhovaZamina
Miron FelBergman
Mammadaga MammadovNeighbour
Mammadkamal KazimovMammadkamal Kazimov
Amina YusifgiziAmina YusifgiziSalima
Safura IbrahimovaSafura IbrahimovaSadi Afandi's Wife
Firangiz SharifovaFirangiz SharifovaGrandmother
Shahin TalatoghluMoshu
Nuriya AkhmedovaNuriya AkhmedovaSalatin

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