While the world was falling apart, they were falling in love.
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Adam BakriAli Khan Shirvanshir
- María ValverdeNino Kipiani
- Connie NielsenDuchess Kipiani
- Mandy PatinkinDuke Kipiani
- Numan AcarSeyid Mustafa
- Riccardo ScamarcioMalik Nakhararyan
- Homayoun ErshadiSafar Khan Shirvanshir
- Halit ErgençFatali Khan Khoyski
- Fakhraddin ManafovHaji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev
- Nigar GulahmadovaSona Taghiyeva
Crew
- Asif KapadiaDirector
- Christopher HamptonWriter
- Gökhan TiryakiDirector of Photography
- Dario MarianelliOriginal Music Composer
- Alexander BernerEditor
- Kris ThykierProducer
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