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Rasim Ojagov

Rasim Ojagov

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Biography

Rasim Ojagov was an Azerbaijani film director, writer and cinematographer, Honoured Art Worker of Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1964), People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982), laureate of the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Known For

Park
5.8

Marat meets a girl named Vika in St. Petersburg.The girl wants Marat to take her to Baku. Marat’s love for Vika is growing day by day. The movie is about relations between Marat, Vika and his friend Mikail.

Park

1984
Tahmina
6.0

This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society.

Tahmina

1993
Interrogation
7.3

The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.

Interrogation

1979
Seven Days After the Murder
5.5

A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an outwardly prosperous and friendly family only seems to be pretending to be happy.

Seven Days After the Murder

1992
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N/A

The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the present day - depicting how, amid shifting social and political upheavals, they endure physical and moral persecution. It also explores human betrayal and the ways people adapt their identities to survive changing circumstances.

Hotel Room

1998
The Return of the Violin
6.0

During the WWII a group of children are trying to save Stradivarius violin from Nazis.

The Return of the Violin

1973
The Most Important Interview
N/A

The film tells the story of journalistic morality in an analytical way. In this sense, the journalist must have a clear conscience and morality. He must find the answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life and what have I been able to do for people?" The protagonist of the film, Zaur is a radio journalist. Throughout the plot, he seeks the answer to this question, but finds it difficult to find the answer, and the complex contrasts of life confuse him.

The Most Important Interview

1971
The Birthday Party
5.1

This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing visions of the world, yet sharing true and lasting friendship.

The Birthday Party

1977
The Sentenced
6.0

Unable to find a cure for her illness, Leyla's father and mother take her to the hospital in Umbaki and forget about her once and for all. For Leyla, life begins with the arrival of student Eldar for an internship at this hospital.

The Sentenced

2007
The Avenger of Ganjabasar
9.8

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.

The Avenger of Ganjabasar

1974
Another Life
9.0

Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.

Another Life

1987
Matteo Falcone
N/A

Matteo Falcone is an Azerbaijani short drama film based on Prosper Merimée's like-named story from 1829. Matteo Falcone is a successful Corsican, who lives with his wife Giuseppa and 10-year-old son Fortunato. One day he leaves home with Giuseppa, leaving Fortunato alone.

Matteo Falcone

1960
If I Die, Forgive Me
4.3

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.

If I Die, Forgive Me

1989
The Labour and Rose
9.5

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

The Labour and Rose

1963
Sound of the Pipe
5.5

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

Sound of the Pipe

1975
Abseron Rhythms
8.0

The works of Azerbaijani composers are performed by M. Magomaev, R. Beyrutov, Z. Khanlarova, O. Agaev, F. Kerimova, P. Bül-Bül-oglu, the vocal quartet "Gaya," and the instrumental quartet conducted by R. Babaev. The concert also features the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Azerbaijan SSR and ballet artists R. Akhundov and V. Pletnev with a number from K. Karaev's ballet "Seven Beauties."

Abseron Rhythms

1970
The First Hour of Life
N/A

The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.

The First Hour of Life

1974
Our Street
N/A

The film is about the girl who was lost during the war and her return to her motherland after some events.

Our Street

1961
Her Great Heart
N/A

This is a story about World War II. The adultery of her husband didn't wreck her life because she could stand all difficulties with a little help of her faithfull friends.

Her Great Heart

1958
Both a Visit and a Business
7.0

Geography teacher Mustafa and his wife visit Istanbul to meet his long-lost cousin, and maybe sell some goods while they're at it.

Both a Visit and a Business

1995