The Joke

Jan 10, 1990

2h 16m

★ 4.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Azerbaijanfilm

Tiskino

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Cast

Rahimov

Rasim Balayev

Mammadov

Ceyhun Mirzäyev

Mammad

Yashar Nuri

Karimov

Mukhtar Maniyev

Khalilova

Xuraman Hadjiyeva

Alya

Elena Kostina

Aleksandr Sharovski

Loghman Karimov

Mother

Latifa Aliyeva

Rimma

Lala Bagirova

Ahmad

Ajdar Hamidov

Komsomol leader

Rafik Aliyev

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