Nizami

The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.

Cast

Hamida Omarova

as Pari Afag

Mukhtar Maniyev

as Gazi

Muslim Magomayev

as Nizami Ganjavi

Hasanagha Turabov

as Muzaffari

Aladdin Abbasov

as Khagani Shirvani

Hadjimurad Yegizarov

as Gizil (Qizil) Arslan

Ahmad Salahov

as Zeyd

Gulnara Sayaliyeva

as Rana

Shahmar Alakbarov

as Osman

Hamlet Xanizadeh

as Abu Bakr

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