Hostage

Hostage

2006
1h 32m
5.0

5.0/10

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Overview

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.

Status: Released

Language: AZ

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Production Information

Production Companies
Azerbaijanfilm
Production Countries
Azerbaijan
Spoken Languages
Azerbaijani

Quick Facts

Original Title Girov
Release Date January 1, 2006
Status Released
Language AZ
IMDb ID tt1051815

Cast

Gurban Ismailov
Gurban Ismailov

Armenian Hostage

Gular Nabiyeva
Gular Nabiyeva

Sona

Mirsahib
Mirsahib

Vidadi Aliyev
Vidadi Aliyev

Ali

Gulshad Bakhshiyeva
Gulshad Bakhshiyeva

Maryam

Afag Bashirgizi
Afag Bashirgizi

Firangiz Babayeva
Firangiz Babayeva

Neighbour

Ulvi Yusifov
Ulvi Yusifov

Rovshan

Vafa Babayeva
Vafa Babayeva

Leyla

Emiliya Javidgizi
Emiliya Javidgizi

Rana

Ilgar Jahangirov
Ilgar Jahangirov

Togrul Rza
Togrul Rza

Key Crew

Eldar Quliyev
Director
Khamiz Muradov
Producer
Eldar Quliyev
Writer
Natig Rasulzadeh
Writer
Vladimir Dudnichenko
Executive Producer