Interrogation ( az, İstintaq, russian: Допрос, Dopros) is a 1980 Soviet

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directed by

Rustam Ibragimbekov Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oghlu Ibrahimbeyov (or Ibrahimbekov; az, Rüstəm Məmməd İbrahim oğlu İbrahimbəyov; russian: Рустам Мамед Ибрагим оглы Ибрагимбеков; 5 February 1939 – 11 March 2022) was a Soviet a ...

and

Rasim Ojagov Rasim Ojagov ( az, Rasim Ocaqov; 22 November 1933, Shaki, Azerbaijani SSR – 11 July 2006, Baku, Azerbaijan) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani film director and camera operator, Honoured Art Worker of Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1964), People's Artist of the Az ...

. The film premiered in April 1980 in Moscow.

Plot

Investigator Seifi Ganiev runs the case of an illegal

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shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed to embezzlement of one million

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from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girl that occurred in

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shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, even though he is facing the

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. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.

Cast

Alexander Kalyagin Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kalyagin (russian: Александр Александрович Калягин; born 25 May 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the ...

as Captain Seifi Ganiev * Hasan Memmedov as Murad Abiev (voiced by

Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Ти́хонов; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky Posad – 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, S ...

) * Shafiga Mammadova as Gülya Ganieva * Elena Prudnikova as Ayan Abieva * Rasim Balayev as Police Colonel Elmar * Tofik Mirzoev as Teymur *

Hasanagha Turabov Hasanagha Turabov ( az, Həsənağa Turabov, russian: Гасанага Турабов; 24 March 1938, Baku – 23 February 2003, Baku) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet actor, who starred in leading roles in numerous Azerbaijani films, including '' ...

as General * Elkhan Agaguseynov as Dadashev *

Yevgeni Lebedev Yevgeni Alekseyevich Lebedev ( rus, Евгeний Алeксeeвич Лeбeдeв, , ɪ̯ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪɪ̯ ɐlʲɪˈkseɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf; January 15, 1917, Balakovo – June 9, 1997, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian actor a ...

as Abiev's prison cell mate * Gumrakh Rakhimov as Policeman

Awards

* 1980 - 13th All-Union Film Festival: Grand Prize in the feature film section.''KINO: Entsiklopedicheskiy slovar’'', cured by S.I. Yutkevich, ''

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

'', 1987, p.83.

References

External links

* Soviet-era Azerbaijanian films Soviet crime drama films Russian crime drama films 1980 crime drama films 1980 films 1980s Russian-language films Azerbaijanfilm films Films directed by Rasim Ojagov Films about capital punishment {{1980s-crime-drama-film-stub