The Window of Sadness

Film about growing up in a small village in Azerbaijan.

Cast

Hasanagha Turabov

as Jalil Mammadguluzadeh/Jalil's Father

Elmira Shabanova

as Hamida

Ilham Safarov

as Jalil (childhood)

Ruslan Nasirov

as Ahmad

Hasan Mammadov

as Mammadhasan

Shukufa Yusupova

as Izzat

Vagif Ibrahimoghlu

as Khudayar bey

Leyla Shikhlinskaya

as Zeynab

Zarnigar Aghakishiyeva

as Sharaf

Fakhraddin Manafov

as Isgandar

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