The Joke

Original title: Lətifə

Duration: 136 min

Release date: 1990-01-10

IMDB

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Comedy

Lətifə

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Jeyhun Mirzayev

Jeyhun Mirzayev

Mukhtar Maniyev

Mukhtar Maniyev

Xuraman Hadjiyeva

Xuraman Hadjiyeva

Aleksandr Sharovski

Aleksandr Sharovski

Loghman Kärimov

Loghman Kärimov

as Komsomol leader

as retired lieutenant colonel

Ogtay Suleymanov

Ogtay Suleymanov

as Factory Worker

Sahib Guluzadeh

Sahib Guluzadeh

as Elevator Operator

as Factory Director

Najiba Huseynova

Najiba Huseynova

as Mother (voice)

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Tatyana Amirova

Tatyana Amirova

Rovshan Aghayev

Rovshan Aghayev

Nataliya Nuriyeva

Nataliya Nuriyeva

Assistant Director

Tamara Narimanbekova

Tamara Narimanbekova

Director of Photography

Kamil Najafzadeh

Kamil Najafzadeh

Production Design

Production Design

Javanshir Guliyev

Javanshir Guliyev

Ramiz Fataliyev

Ramiz Fataliyev

Niyazi Zeynalov

Niyazi Zeynalov

Lighting Design

Rustam Rustamov

Rustam Rustamov

Lighting Design

Lyudmila Lotina

Lyudmila Lotina

Assistant Editor

Sound Assistant

Nusrat Kasamanli

Nusrat Kasamanli

Set Photographer

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