Cinema
Ulduz
Agharza Guliyev · 1965
Synopsis
In a village in Azerbaijan, Ulduz, a young researcher, loves Bəxtiyar. But love quickly moves to the background: the young woman joins the struggle that the progressive minds of the kolkhoz wage against the careerists who owe nothing to knowledge, foremost among them Gülümsərov, a false scholar whom his secretary Möhsün knows better than anyone, while Bəxtiyar stays on the sidelines. Between songs, the film speaks of the link between science and life.
Context
The film adapts the operetta by Süleyman Ələsgərov, who also wrote its music and which the country's theatres had often revived. Most of the shooting took place in the Astara district, with Yuli Fogelman as cinematographer and sets by Kamil Nəcəfzadə. Bəşir Səfəroğlu plays Gülümsərov in it, Lütfəli Abdullayev Məhəmməd and Nəsibə Zeynalova Züleyxa, alongside Tamilla Rüstəmova in the title role. Completed in 1964, the film was presented on 29 March 1965 at the Nizami cinema in Baku.
Who it is for
A sung comedy in Azerbaijani, in black and white, of a little over an hour, set in a village in the south.
Prizes and reception
A comedy whose lines the Azerbaijani press still quotes, half a century after its release.