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Hostage

2006-01-01 · 92 min · ★ 5.0

Drama

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.

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Directors
Eldar Guliyev
Production companies
Azerbaijanfilm
Countries
Azerbaijan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Gurban IsmailovGurban IsmailovArmenian Hostage
Gular NabiyevaGular NabiyevaSona
Mirsahib
Vidadi AliyevVidadi AliyevAli
Gulshad BakhshiyevaGulshad BakhshiyevaMaryam
Afag BashirgiziAfag Bashirgizi
Firangiz BabayevaFirangiz BabayevaNeighbour
Ulvi YusifovRovshan
Vafa BabayevaLeyla
Emiliya JavidgiziRana
Ilgar JahangirovIlgar Jahangirov
Togrul RzaTogrul Rza
Ulviyya RzaUlviyya Rza
Rada NasibovaRada Nasibova
Adalat AbdulsamadovAdalat Abdulsamadov
Intigam SoltanIntigam SoltanVillager
Asif Rəhimov

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