''The Window'' ( az, Pəncərə) is a 1991
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
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drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by Hasan Abluj and Anvar Abluj.
[Azərbaycan Respublikası Mədəniyyət Nazirliyi. C.Cabbarlı adına "Azərbaycanfilm" kinostudiyası. Aydın Kazımzadə. Bizim "Azərbaycanfilm". 1923-2003-cü illər. Bakı: Mütərcim, 2004.- səh. 362-364.]
Plot
The film reveals the contradictions between the "educator"-teachers and the "educated"-students in the
boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...
, which is actually an orphanage, where
lawlessness
Lawlessness is a lack of law, in any of the various senses of that word. Lawlessness may describe various conditions.
In society
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,
violence
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,
hypocrisy
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, and cruelty prevail. Little Ahsan (''Ilham Babayev''), forced to live in such contradictory conditions, but unable to adapt to these conditions, who misses his native home, finds the only way out -
by throwing himself out of the
window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent materia ...
and perishes.
The film "Window" sounds like a warning, calling for a radical change in the educational system that cripples the fate of children.
Cast
*Ilham Babayev — Ahsan
*Valeh Karimov — Ahsa's father
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Yashar Nuri
Yashar Nuri ( az, Yaşar Nuri; September 3, 1951 – November 22, 2012) was an Azerbaijani film, television and theater actor and a member of the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre. He appeared in more than fifty Azerbaijani and Soviet era fil ...
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*Anwar Abluj — director
*Ruslan Nasirov — Nomad
*Simuzar Agakishiyeva — Narmina
*Elkhan Bayramov — Savalan
*Abbasgulu Abluj — Wasif
*Zemfira Aliyeva — Sultannisa
*Tavakkul Ismayilov — Burkhan
*Khalil Ismayilov — Jeyhun
*Mammadbagir Hasanov — Booty
*Ramin Malikov — Rovshan
*Hasan Abluj — Rovsha's father
*Farid Hajiyev — Zaki
*Nazir Aliyev is Zaki's father
*Emil Bayramov — Sacrifice
*Vusala Nabiyeva — Gumral
*Rovshan Jahangirov — Samad
*Abdul Mikayilov — Ahmed
*Elkhan Guliyev - militia captain
*Fikret Mammadov - militia lieutenant
*Lalazar Mustafayeva - mother
See also
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Cinema of Azerbaijan
Cinema of Azerbaijan dates back to the 19th century. Azerbaijan is one of the first countries in the world involved in cinematography. The first Azerbaijani film was a thirty second long silent film called The Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat, which ...
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Azerbaijani films from the 90s
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Window
1991 films
1991 drama films
Azerbaijani-language films