The Joke
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.
Crew and Cast
Nizami MusayevDirector · Dunyaminov
Yefim AbramovDirector
Rasim BalayevRahimov
Ceyhun MirzäyevMammadov
Yashar NuriMammad
Mukhtar ManiyevKarimov
Xuraman HadjiyevaKhalilova
Elena KostinaAlya
Aleksandr Sharovski
Loghman Karimov
Latifa AliyevaMotherLala BagirovaRimma
Ajdar HamidovAhmad
Rafik AliyevKomsomol leader
Arif KerimovMurtuzov
Sadykh Gusejnovretired lieutenant colonelTarlan BabayevPainter
Ogtay SuleymanovFactory Worker
Sahib Guluzadeh
Alla SannikovaIgor Sannikov
Alim AslanovNazarov
Dadash KazimovElevator OperatorFaig BabayevFactory Director
Asiman AgayevStalin
Najiba HuseynovaMother (voice)
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Info
- Original title
- Lətifə
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 10 January 1990
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- TMDB score
- 5.8 / 10 (6 votes)
Production
- Director
- Nizami Musayev, Yefim Abramov
- Writers
- Rovshan Aghayev
- Studios
- Azerbaijanfilm, Tiskino
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Languages
- Original
- Azerbaijani
- Spoken
- Azerbaijani, Russian