The Hostage

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Gurban Ismailov

Armenian Hostage

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Gular Nabiyeva

Sona

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Mirsahib

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Vidadi Aliyev

Ali

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Gulshad Bakhshiyeva

Maryam

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Afag Bashirgizi

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Firangiz Babayeva

Neighbour

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Ulvi Yusifov

Rovshan

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Rafig Guliyev
Editing	Editor	Gulshan Salimova
Writing	Screenplay	Eldar Guliyev Natig Rasulzadeh
	Script Editor	Vagif Mammadov
Directing	Director	Eldar Guliyev
Sound	Sound Designer	Asad Asadov
	Music Editor	Rauf Aliyev
	Music	Sayavush Karimi
Art	Production Design	Mayis Aghabeyov
	Assistant Production Design	Ali Davudov
Production	Producer	Khamiz Muradov
Lighting	Lighting Design	Akif Rahimov Mammadhuseyn Samadov Rasim Eyvazov
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Malahat Humbatova
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