The Family

Overview

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.

Cast

Hasanagha Turabov

Ismail

Sayavush Karimi

Teymur

Svetlana Metkina

Alya

Rafik Aliyev

Garik

Tahmina Mammadova

Rana

Natalya Bagirova

Sofiya Mikhaylovna

Mekhriban Zeki

Elmira

Fuad Poladov

Mob Leader

Dzhakhangir Mekhdiev

Rufat

Agil Guliyev

Igor

Alibala Mamedov

Nadir Abdulrahimbeyov