The Joke
Jan 10 1990
•2h 16m
•Comedy
Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
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Rasim Balayev
Rahimov
Jeyhun Mirzayev
Mammadov
Yashar Nuri
Mammad
Mukhtar Maniyev
Karimov
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