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.
Cast
Latifa Aliyeva
Mother
Arif Kerimov
Murtuzov
Dadash Kazimov
Elevator Operator
Ceyhun Mirzäyev
Mammadov
Mukhtar Maniyev
Karimov
Xuraman Hadjiyeva
Khalilova
Loghman Karimov
Ajdar Hamidov
Ahmad
Sadykh Gusejnov
retired lieutenant colonel
Rasim Balayev
Rahimov
Yashar Nuri
Mammad
Rafik Aliyev
Komsomol leader
Alla Sannikova
Najiba Huseynova
Mother (voice)
Elena Kostina
Alya
Aleksandr Sharovski