The Joke

5.8 1990 136 min
Comedy

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

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Directors
Yefim Abramov, Nizami Musayev
Writer
Rovshan Aghayev

Cast

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Rasim Balayev Rahimov
Ceyhun Mirzäyev Mammadov
Yashar Nuri Mammad
Mukhtar Maniyev Karimov
Xuraman Hadjiyeva Khalilova
Elena Kostina Alya
Aleksandr Sharovski
Loghman Karimov
Latifa Aliyeva Mother
Lala Bagirova Rimma
Ajdar Hamidov Ahmad
Rafik Aliyev Komsomol leader
Arif Kerimov Murtuzov
Nizami Musayev Dunyaminov
Sadykh Gusejnov retired lieutenant colonel
Tarlan Babayev Painter
Ogtay Suleymanov Factory Worker
Sahib Guluzadeh

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