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Jeyhun Mirzayev Jeyhun Jamil oglu Mirzayev ( az, Ceyhun Mirzəyev; 9 April 1946 – March 5, 1993) was an Azerbaijani actor and film director. Career Mirzayev was born in the Gulabli village, in Aghdam, Azerbaijan, to Jamil Mirzayev and his second wife Margari ...

Najiba Malikova Najiba Gashim qizi Melikova (, ; 1921–1992) also Näcibä Mälikova, was an Azerbaijani and Soviet actress of theater and film. She was awarded the title of People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (June 1, 1974). Biography Melikova was born o ...

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Tofig Guliyev Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev ( az, Tofiq Ələkbər oğlu Quliyev, tr, Tevfik Elekber oğlu Guliyev; 7 November 1917, Baku – 4 October 2000, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor. Biography Tofig Guliyev was born in ...

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, language = Azerbaijani , budget = , gross = ''The Stepmother'' ( az, Ögey ana) is a 1958 Azerbaijanian film shot at the Baku film studio by director Habib Ismailov. The film was shot in the village of Galajig,

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. The film tells how Dilara, Ismail's stepmother, manages to win the love of her stepson, for which they both had to go through a difficult test.Məmmədova, Y. Çox doğmadan doğma "ögey": ejissor Həbib İsmayılovun "Ögey ana" filmində Xalq artisti Nəcibə Məlikovanın canlandırdığı ana obrazı haqqında//Zaman.- 2010.- 27 may.- S. 8.

Plot

In one of the Azerbaijani villages where young Ismail (played by

) lives, his father brings his wife Dilara (played by

), who works as a doctor, and her daughter Jamila, Ismail's same age and half-sister. Ismail is a well-known mischievous person in the village and teases Jamila all the time, but does not like his

stepmother A stepmother, stepmum or stepmom is a non-biological female parent married to one's preexisting parent. A stepmother-in-law is a stepmother of one's spouse. Children from her spouse's previous unions are known as her stepchildren. Culture Ste ...

. But he begins to hate her even more after Dilyara shows his father Ismail's school diary, in which there are only deuces. For this, Ismail's father, Arif (played by

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), does not take Ismail with him to the mountains, where he supervises the construction of the road. One day, Ismail throws a

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to Jamila because she complained about him to her mother. Dilara, having learned about this, punishes the naughty boy. Ismail's opinion about his stepmother begins to change when he sees how she saved the life of a seriously ill man. He secretly does his homework and gradually gets used to the new "

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". During another children's fun - a game of racing - Ismail invites Jamila to cross the river, and the girl, having fallen into the water, catches a severe cold. Ismail is tormented by conscience. But then he recalls how his grandmother (played by

Hagigat Rzayeva Hagigat Ali qizi Rzayeva ( az, Həqiqət Rzayeva) (20 May 1907, Lankaran – 2 August 1969, Baku) was a Soviet Azerbaijani actress and singer of folk, opera, and pop music. Career Hagigat Rzayeva was born on 20 May 1907 in a small village near ...

) treated him, giving him tea from a wild

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growing in the mountains. Ismail rushes to the mountains, not knowing that explosive work is being carried out there to build a road. Dilyara finds out where Ismail ran and runs after him, but does not have time. During the explosion, Ismail is seriously injured. Having lost a lot of blood, Ismail is on the verge of death. But Dilara gives him a blood transfusion, thereby saving his life. Waking up, Ismail hugs Dilara, calling her mom, not stepmother, as he did before.

Awards

In the All-Union Film Festival held in

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in 1959, the film was awarded the third prize.

Connection with the film "Scream"

In the film Scream, filmed in 1993,

played the grown-up Ismail, now the commander of a battalion fighting in

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...

for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. In this film, at the time when Ismail's wife, along with his little son, are seeing off her husband to the war, there are shots from the film "Stepmother", where young Ismail, seeing off his father to construction work, cries because he did not take him with myself. It is also interesting that the film "Stepmother" is the first acting work of Jeyhun Mirzoev, and "Scream" is the last.

Cast

- Ismail *

as Dilara, Ismail's stepmother *Fateh Fatullayev as Arif, Ismail's father *Jeyhun Sharifov - Dadash *

Alasgar Alakbarov Alasgar Hajiagha oglu Alakbarov ( az, Ələsgər Ələkbərov) (26 March 1910, Baku – 31 January 1963, Baku), was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actor. Career He was born to a family of a poor merchant. He developed passion for acting and music w ...

- Huseyn *

as Gamar, Ismail's grandmother, Arif's mother-in-law *Almaz Mammadova - Solmaz *Gadzhimurad Yagizarov - Ayaz *

Nasiba Zeynalova Nasiba Jahangir gizi Zeynalova ( az, Nəsibə Cahangir qızı Zeynalova; 20 April 1916 – 10 March 2004) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actress. People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1967). Life and career Nasiba Zeynalova was born in Baku (then part ...

as Fatma, mother-in-law of Gamer *Ali Kurbanov - Kurbanali *Shafiga Gasimova - Zeynab

References

External links

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Stepmom film

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