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  • PoetryThe Treasury of MysteriesMəxzən-ül-əsrarNizami Ganjavi · 1163A book of wisdom in verse, the first of its author's five great poems.Literature
  • PoetryDivanQazi Burhanaddin · 1390not translated into EnglishThe divan of a sultan of Anatolia in the fourteenth century, a poet of love and war.Literature
  • PoetryDivanImadaddin Nasimi · 1400not translated into EnglishThe verses of a Hurufi mystic for whom divinity can be read on a human face.Literature
  • EpicThe Book of Dede KorkutKitabi-Dədə QorqudAnonymous · 1400The epic material of the Oghuz tribes, linked together by the figure of an old bard and soothsayer.Literature
  • PoetryBeng ü BadəFuzuli · 1510not translated into EnglishA war of drinks at the banquet, an allegory of the rivalries of the time of Shah Ismail.Literature
  • EpicKurroglouKoroğluAnonymous · 1600The saga of a poet-brigand, sung by the bards of the Caucasus and Central Asia since the seventeenth century.Literature
  • TheatreCollected Dramatic Works of Mirza Fath-Ali AkhundzadehTəmsilatMirza Fatali Akhundov · 1859Six comedies of manners from the Caucasus, at the beginning of a national theatre.Literature
  • EssaySiyasəti-fürusətAli bey Huseynzade · 1908not translated into EnglishAn allegorical satire of Russian politics, written in Baku at the beginning of the century and published in instalments.Literature
  • PoetryHophopnaməMirza Alakbar Sabir · 1912not translated into EnglishThe satires of a poet from Shamakhi, collected by his friends the year after his death.Literature
  • EssayƏsrimizin SəyavuşuMammad Amin Rasulzade · 1923not translated into EnglishAn essay written in exile on the Azerbaijani republic of 1918 and its fall.Literature
  • CinemaLegend of the Maiden TowerQız qalası haqqında əfsanəVladimir Balluzek · 1924A legend of Baku brought to the screen, the first fiction feature film of Soviet Azerbaijan.Cinema
  • CinemaIn the Name of GodBismillahAbbas Mirza Sharifzadeh · 1925An attack on the Shiite clergy, filmed in Baku by the country's first director.Cinema
  • CinemaThe House on the VolcanoDom na vulkaneAmo Bek-Nazaryan · 1929A joint undertaking of the Yerevan and Baku studios, at the end of the silent era, on the Caspian oilfields.Cinema
  • CinemaLatifLətifMikayil Mikayilov · 1930A silent fiction about collectivisation, shot in Azerbaijan around a young boy.Cinema
  • NovelStudentlərYusif Vazir Chamanzaminli · 1934not translated into EnglishThe Azerbaijani students of Kiev in the years leading up to the revolution.Literature
  • PoetryBoğulmayan bir sesAlmas Yildirim · 1936not translated into EnglishThe first book of an exile, published in Istanbul by a publisher of the Azerbaijani diaspora.Literature
  • CinemaBy the Bluest of SeasU samogo sinego moryaBoris Barnet · 1936A near-musical comedy, shot on an island in the Caspian by a Moscow company in association with the Azerbaijani studios.Cinema
  • NovelAli and NinoƏli və NinoKurban Said · 1937A love between two worlds, in Baku, written by an author whose identity remains disputed.Literature
  • PoetryÜrək sözüMahammad Biriya · 1944not translated into EnglishAn Azeri collection from Iran, half lyrical and half satirical, printed in Baku.Literature
  • NovelDays in the CaucasusJours caucasiensBanine · 1945A Muslim childhood in the Baku of oil, told in French by an exile in Paris.Literature
  • CinemaThe Cloth PeddlerArşın mal alanRza Tahmasib and Nikolai Leshchenko · 1945An operetta from Baku brought to the screen at the end of the war, in black and white, by the city's studio.Cinema
  • CinemaBakhtiarBəxtiyarLatif Safarov · 1955A musical comedy produced in Baku in the mid-fifties, centred on an oil worker with a rare voice.Cinema
  • CinemaIf Not That One, Then This OneO olmasın, bu olsunHuseyn Seyidzade · 1956An operetta from the beginning of the century about arranged marriages, brought to the screen in colour by the Baku studio.Cinema
  • CinemaUlduzAgharza Guliyev · 1965A sung comedy based on an operetta from the national repertoire, shot in the south of the country in the mid-sixties.Cinema
  • CinemaNesimiNəsimiHasan Seyidbeyli · 1973The life of the fourteenth-century mystic poet, filmed for the six-hundredth anniversary of his birth.Cinema
  • CinemaDada GorgudDədə QorqudTofig Taghizade · 1975The Oghuz epic brought to the screen in two parts by the Baku studio in the mid-seventies.Cinema
  • CinemaOn One Fine DayGünlərin bir günüYuli Gusman and Rustam Ibrahimbeyov · 1977Two short stories from the Baku studio, in the mid-seventies, on the difficult reconciliation of each person's interest with that of all.Cinema
  • CinemaInterrogationİstintaqRasim Ojagov · 1980A corruption case in Soviet Azerbaijan, brought to the screen on the back of a party campaign against abuses.Cinema
  • CinemaNizamiEldar Guliyev · 1982A fictionalised biography of the poet of Ganja, shot in the early eighties by the studios of Baku and Moscow.Cinema
  • NarrativeIran: A Child's Story, a Man's ExperienceGholamreza Sabri Tabrizi · 1989Half a century of Iranian history, seen by a child from Tabriz who became an academic in Scotland.Literature