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Synopsis

This film shows the war from the perspective of the generations of people who were physically unable to go to battle Jabish is a teacher. His eyesight is weak and prevents him from going to war. Nevertheless, he tries his best to assist the war effort. One day, he discovers how to make soap – a much needed commodity both at the front and at home. A chatlatan named Abulfaz finds out and soeaks to Jabish’s wife, sheming ways to buy the soap and sell it on the black marker. Jabish’s familly desperately needs cash, so his wife agrees to the plan. As the film develops, the viewers are led to believe the story will turn out in favor of Abulfaz and Jabish’s wife. At the very last moment, however, Jabish succeeds in sending the soap tothe soliders at the front. —afc.az

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Hasan Seyidbayli

He was born on 22 December 1920 in Baku. From 1938-39 he studied in the sound technician faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers. He began writing in 1942 and continued his education in 1943 at ASIC (the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russia State Institute of Cinematography) in the directing faculty (in the workshop run by S. Eisenstein and G. Kozintsev). Many of our cinema’s greatest achievements are connected with the name of Hasan Seyidbeyli. Documentary films were made from his scripts: ‘To the Native People’, ‘Under the Hot Sky’, ‘On the Distant Coast’ (with I. Gasimov), ‘Soviet Azerbaijan’ (1 series, with N. Yarova), ‘Perfection’; a short film ‘The Incident on the Road’ (with I. Gasimov); and the animation films ‘Tora and Zara’ and ‘Thanks, Friend’. Hasan Seyidbeyli directed the first colour film “From Baku to Goy-gol”. He also made film-sketches: ‘In the Gardens of Guba’, ‘In the Valley of the River Tartar’ (he was also co-author of the script) and ‘The Great Road’. Hasan… read more

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