Acting
The film is set in a restaurant, and the tragicomic events that befall a restaurant owner who is in debt to a mafia boss.
January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.
Local healer embarks on the path of revenge against the Russian Bolsheviks who captured his native village, establishing their own rules there.
At the wedding day the beautiful bride Marusya is left alone by her fiancé. She decides to find him by any cost with her friends and they travel to motherland of the groom – Azerbaijan – where they get into the greatest adventure they ever experienced.
Gurbanali Bey is a slave of the officials of Tsarist Russia. If they say die, he dies, if they say stay, he stays. After Gurbanali Bey gets drunk at a party, he invites all the guests to his house, but they say that a drunkard has no memory. The Bey, who forgets this, falls into a bad situation and is disgraced...
After the country transitions to a market economy, the psychiatric hospital is left without funding. The chief doctor (Yaşar Nuri) releases the patients to their homes. However, the outside world turns out to be even more insane than the patients themselves. Seeing the state of society, the patients are forced to return to the hospital. Although this film portrays the lives of people with mental illnesses, it actually uses dark humor to highlight the ugliness and shortcomings in our society and everyday surroundings.
Sequel to Fəryad (1993). The film tells the story of Azerbaijani victory in the 44-day Patriotic War for the lands of Karabakh, which the Armenian invaders had occupied for nearly 30 years.
