This film is war parabola with expressive visual style. This not typical point of view about the war for Soviet cinema.

The clash of two styles of approaches to people, science, and business is the main conflict of the film. Both central characters - the head of the...

The film takes place in Baku in 1918-19 and then several years later. The film is based on the opera of the same name by Fikret Amirov. Sevil became...