A healer becomes death's apprentice when Bolsheviks take everything.
Local healer embarks on the path of revenge against the Russian Bolsheviks who captured his native village, establishing their own rules there.
Acting
Khanizadeh's transformation from gentle hands to hardened resolve.
Cinematography
Misty Caucasus mountains that swallow morality whole.
Director
Oktai Mir-Kasimov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Azerbaijani cinema rarely reaches Western audiences; this 2002 film explores Soviet occupation through folk horror, not propaganda.
Director Oktai Mir-Kasimov shot in actual remote villages with non-professional locals as extras, blurring documentary and fiction.
AZ
