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The Joke

1990 · Yefim Abramov · 136 min

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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.

Rasim BalayevRahimov

Ceyhun MirzäyevMammadov

Yashar NuriMammad

Mukhtar ManiyevKarimov

Xuraman HadjiyevaKhalilova

Elena KostinaAlya

Aleksandr Sharovski

Loghman Karimov

Latifa AliyevaMother LLala BagirovaRimma

Ajdar HamidovAhmad

Rafik AliyevKomsomol leader

Arif KerimovMurtuzov NNizami MusayevDunyaminov

Sadykh Gusejnovretired lieutenant colonel

Cast

Rasim BalayevRahimov

Ceyhun MirzäyevMammadov

Yashar NuriMammad

Mukhtar ManiyevKarimov

Xuraman HadjiyevaKhalilova

Elena KostinaAlya

Aleksandr Sharovski

Loghman Karimov

Latifa AliyevaMother LLala BagirovaRimma

Ajdar HamidovAhmad

Rafik AliyevKomsomol leader

Arif KerimovMurtuzov NNizami MusayevDunyaminov

Sadykh Gusejnovretired lieutenant colonel

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