The film explores intelligent feelings of harmonious coordination and human problems, as well as psychological issues. The film addresses topical issues of contemporary morality. The protagonist, Murad, has a family and a good job, but on a whim, he suddenly feels compelled to abandon everything. Deep down, he is torn between feelings of love and indifference.
The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.
The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.
Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years.
Young border guard Sergeant Farrukh is in love with Izran, a girl from a neighboring village. Izran's father does not believe in the seriousness of the young man's intentions and forbids his daughter from seeing him.
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.
Popular movie trailers from 1976
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1976:
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be.