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The Hostage

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Calorie Rating: 129
Released: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Studios: Azerbaijanfilm,


During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.

Director / Directors



Cast

Gurban Ismailov
Character: Armenian Hostage
Gular Nabiyeva
Character: Sona

Vidadi Aliyev
Character: Ali
Gulshad Bakhshiyeva
Character: Maryam

Firangiz Babayeva
Character: Neighbour
Ulvi Yusifov
Character: Rovshan
Vafa Babayeva
Character: Leyla

Emiliya Javidgizi
Character: Rana


Intigam Soltan
Character: Villager


Production and Crew

Eldar Kuliyev
Screenplay
Rafig Guliyev
Director of Photography

Mayis Aghabeyov
Production Design
Asad Asadov
Sound Designer

Malahat Humbatova
Costume Design
Vagif Mammadov
Script Editor

Rauf Aliyev
Music Editor
Ali Davudov
Assistant Production Design

Mammadhuseyn Samadov
Lighting Design
Akif Rahimov
Lighting Design
Rasim Eyvazov
Lighting Design

Elbrus Vahidov
Makeup Artist