Movies by Eldar Kuliyev
The Hostage
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded m...
In a Southern Town
Murad, a young man, lives by the old ethical norms that are still valid in the suburbs of his city. He had promised Tofig, his childhood friend, to give him his sister as a wife, but Tofig is in love with another girl. He forgets the promise and takes the girl home. Murad is offended. According to the code of honor, he must take revenge. One of the first films ever produced in the Soviet Union to challenge the sociopolitical establishment.
The Bay of Happiness
The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
The Istanbul Plane
Fair Wind
Nizami
The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.
Oh, Heart... Heart
Legend of Gumushgol
The life of the protagonist of the film, Farid, changes completely after what happened in a mountain village, where a pedestrian escaped from the responsibility, which he thought was dead.
Once Upon a Time
After the story of the same name of S. Gadirzadeh "Autumnal leaves". The film is about old man and old woman and their sudden meeting.
Babek
It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.