The Joke

5.8/ 10 6 votes 1990-01-10 2h 16m 4 popularity

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.

Director: Nizami Musayev

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Cast

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Rasim Balayev

Rahimov

Ceyhun Mirzäyev

Mammadov

Yashar Nuri

Mammad

Mukhtar Maniyev

Karimov

Xuraman Hadjiyeva

Khalilova

Elena Kostina

Alya

Aleksandr Sharovski

Loghman Karimov

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