Cinema
Nizami
Eldar Guliyev · 1982
Synopsis
Ganja, at the end of the twelfth century. The poet refuses to become a court poet: inspiration, he thinks, is born of life among ordinary people. He sees a young man, in despair over the death of the woman he loved, choose madness, a story from which he will later draw one of his great poems. The film retraces this difficult life, and makes his verses heard on screen.
Context
The screenplay is by İsa Hüseynov, written with the director; the cinematography is by Arif Nərimanbəyov and the music by Qara Qarayev. Co-produced by Azərbaycanfilm and Mosfilm, the film exists in Russian and in Azerbaijani; it was released on 1 June 1982. For lack of an actor for the title role, the director has said that he held a séance at his home in which the poet's spirit pointed to the singer Müslüm Maqomayev, which the latter confirms in his memoirs; in the Russian version, it is Vyacheslav Tikhonov who lends him his voice. Həmidə Ömərova and Həsənağa Turabov appear alongside him.
Who it is for
More than two hours of historical reconstruction, in Russian or Azerbaijani, in which the poet's verses are heard.
Prizes and reception
Director's prize at the sixteenth All-Union Film Festival, in Leningrad in 1983, then diplomas from the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan in Tashkent in 1984.
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