Execution Day

Feb 11, 1990

2h 12m

★ 2.0

Overview

After the novel of the same name of Yusif Samadoghlu. The film is about three intervals in time: the distant past, yesterday and today, about innocent victims, about repression, and conquest of different countries.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Azerbaijanfilm

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Cast

Patient/ Sadi Afandi/ Poet

Hamlet Khanizadeh

Maya/ Prisoner

Eleonora Korisnaitė

Mahmud

Yashar Nuri

Zulfugar

Aladdin Abbasov

Ibrahim Aliyev

Haja Anvar

Zulfugar Baratzadeh

Mukhtar Karimli

Nasir Sadigzadeh

Salahov

Mukhtar Ibadov

Tatar Tamir

Abdul Mahmudov

Zulfugar (Young)

Rahim Sadigbeyli

Gasim

Idris Rustamov

Zamina

Zemfira Sadigova

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