The Joke

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.

Cast

Rasim Balayev

as Rahimov

Ceyhun Mirzäyev

as Mammadov

Yashar Nuri

as Mammad

Mukhtar Maniyev

as Karimov

Xuraman Hadjiyeva

as Khalilova

Elena Kostina

as Alya

Aleksandr Sharovski

as

Loghman Kärimov

as

Latifa Aliyeva

as Mother

Lala Baghirova

as Rimma

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