The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War. The film tells about the heroism of the sons of Azerbaijan, who fought for the Motherland to the last drop of blood in spite of everything in the Karabakh war.
Acting
Gulzar Gurbanova's silent devastation as Tiger's mother.
Direction
Jafarov's refusal to glorify — war as muddy, human, pointless.
Director
Elkhan Jafarov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the few internationally accessible films addressing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, still a frozen conflict with renewed violence in 2020.
The animal codenames (Tiger, Dragon) are traditional Azerbaijani wrestling titles — the film subtly frames these boys as athletes thrown into an unwinnable game.
AZ
