The Hostage (2005)
1h 32m
Running Time
January 1, 2005Release Date
The Hostage (2005)
1h 32m
Running Time
January 1, 2005Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Gular Nabiyeva
Sona
Gurban Ismailov
Actor
Vidadi Aliyev
Actor
Gulshad Bakhshiyeva
Maryam
Vafa Babayeva
Leyla
Dzheykun Kuliev
Director
Eldar Guliyev
Director
Firangiz Babayeva
Neighbour
Ulvi Yusifov
Rovshan
Khamiz Muradov
Producer
Siyavoush Kerimi
Composer
Emiliya Javidgizi
Rana
Intigam Soltan
Villager
Rafig Guliyev
Director of Photography
Gulshan Salimova
Editor
Asad Asadov
Sound Designer
Mayis Aghabeyov
Production Design
Rauf Aliyev
Music Editor
Natig Rasulzadeh
Screenplay
Sayavush Karimi
Music
Akif Rahimov
Lighting Design
Malahat Humbatova
Costume Design
Vagif Mammadov
Script Editor
Ali Davudov
Assistant Production Design
Mammadhuseyn Samadov
Lighting Design
Rasim Eyvazov
Lighting Design
Adalat Abdulsamadov
Rada Nasibova
Ulviyya Abdullazadeh
Afag Bashirgizi
Mirsahib
Ilgar Jahangirov
Details.
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