Man Casts an Anchor

The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.

Cast

Alasgar Ibrahimov

as Ramiz

Hadjimurad Yegizarov

as Murad

Hokuma Gurbanova

as Shamama

Ismail Afandiyev

as Shirali

Lyudmila Marchenko

as Nina

Arkadi Tolbuzin

as Moroz

Zemfira Tsakhilova

as Adila

Aleksandr Petrov

as Vadim

Yuri Perov

as Andrei

Mukhtar Maniyev

as Majid

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