“Interrupted memories” to be shown at YARAT [PHOTO]

By Azernews

By Laman Ismayilova

YARAT Film Club invites everyone to enjoy “Interrupted memories” movie, devoted to 70th anniversary of Victory Day on February 16.

Directed by Elkhan Jafarov, the film is based on a true story. The main character is an Azerbaijani man - Daniyal Abdullayev who recalls his youth memories.

For him, as the defender of the Brest fortress, the war began in 1941. During the battles, he got into a concentration camp in Dubica, and later escaped to join the partisans in those territories.

About 200 residents of Brest participated in the crowd scenes. They acted as the defenders of the citadel, as the partisans, as the prisoners of war and as the Germans in the movie. The first part of the movie was shot in Belarus - Brest and Minsk.

There are two parallel storylines developed in the movie. These are the Great Patriotic War and the tragic episode from the history of modern Azerbaijan - the war in Karabakh.

Abdullayev, who was fighting against Nazis, fifty years later, stands for the protection of Karabakh from Armenian occupants. Russian mercenary, who was fighting for the Armenian side, kills the veteran and discovers his diary and finds out that the old man was fighting along with his grandfather during World War II.

The cast include Shamil Suleimanov, Bahruz Vagifoghlu, Gulzar Gurbanova, Rza Rzayev, Gurban Ismayilov, Javanshir Hadiyev, Rovshan Agayev, Mikhail Kaminsky, Andrei Milyuhin and Veronica Plyashkevich. Some well-known Russian, Georgian and German actors took part in the movie, too. 

The film is produced by “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio named after Jafar Jabbarli.

Admission is free. The screening starts at 19:00.

For more information, please contact:  

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