The Peasants

Dec 28, 1939

1h 27m

★ 5.0

Overview

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Azerbaijanfilm

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Cast

Aşıq Göydəmir

Alasgar Alakbarov

Təhməz / Menşevik

Mustafa Mardanov

Hacı Həsən

Rza Darabli

Petra

Boris Baykov

Abbas

Rza Afganli

Pristav

Sidgi Ruhulla

ağ saçlı

Eli Gurbanov

Eldar

Mohsun Sanani

Mehmandar bəy

Heiri Emirzade

Ülfət

Tamara Isgandarova

bəy oğlu

Mikail Mikaylov

Hacı Həsənin oğlu

Atamoghlan Rzayev

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...

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