Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his dream is to join a music band. The title of the film refers to an Azerbaijani fairy tale about saving a princess from a house with 40 doors; no one has succeeded in opening the last door, and thus its secret remains hidden. The villagers have named their village the 40th door as well.
The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the present day - depicting how, amid shifting social and political upheavals, they endure physical and moral persecution.
After World War II, a group of young “robbers” redistributes the wealth of the rich to the poor while protecting the honor of women, especially the wives and sisters of soldiers at the front.
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds.
Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of the local commune.
The film tells the story that takes place in one of the gardens of Baku, about an honest bus driver, Agababa, who lives by high moral standards, and his large family.
The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.
This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society.
Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.
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40-cı Qapı / The 40th Door
Prodüserlər: Xaqani Həşimov Elçin Musaoğlu Ssenari müəllifi və rejissor: Elçin Musaoğlu Quruluşçu operator: Rəhim Beşarat Quruluşçu rəssam: Elxan Nəbiyev ...
40-cı qapı / The 40th Door - a film by Elcin Musaoglu
"40-cı Qapı" filmi "RITM Production" kino şirkətində çəkilmişdir. Dünyanın 38 ölkəsində məşhur film festivallarında müsabiqələrdə iştirak etmiş 11 mükafat ...
Elchin Musaoglu The 40th Door interview Karlovy Vary
In this interview recorded at the Karlovy Vary IFF in the Czech Republic in July 2009 director Elchin Musaoglu (Azerbaijan) discusses his film The 40th Door.
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