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- Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
- The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.
- Imadaddin Nasimi, well-known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society.
- Popularly known by the name of the main character, "Mashadi Ibad" was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman (Gulnaz) who falls in love with a young man (Sarvar) but is obliged to marry someone else. Gulnaz' father, Rustam bey, is bankrupt. He decides that the only way to pay off his creditors is to get money by marrying off Gulnaz to the rich, old, widowed bazaar merchant, Mashadi Ibad. But Sarvar contrives a way to foil the plan by disguising himself as the bride hidden under the thick Muslim veil. When Mashadi Ibad lifts the veil to see his bride's face, he discovers Sarvar who holds him at gun point and makes him write a statement that he really wants to marry the maid, not Gulnaz. This is where the work gets its title, "If Not This One, Then That One." The strategy works and Sarvar succeeds in marrying Gulnaz.
- The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child
- The struggle of the people against the shakh (king) who seized all of land and water resources.
- Schoolmates who loved each other, but didn't say it meet again years later.
- Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other prosesses are shown on the course of the war.
- The animation was based on Abdulla Shaig's "Tig-tig khanum" fairytale.
- Portray the life of the Mehdi Huseynzade, legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the WW2, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia.
- When Yusif comes back home after World War II, he finds his beloved married to another; father robbed; mother living alone; friend suffering from mental illness. Can he turn things around?
- It speaks about time when Azerbaijan was invaded by Russian Bolsheviks in the 1920s and how local landlord resists to obey to new Soviet authorities despite they threats to kill him and his siblings
- Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.
- Being unable to shoot a film about Azerbaijani wedding customs, hopeless director decide to make a film about real wedding event. Though the stubborn father of bride resists approval the plan.
- While there is famine during WW2, a boy with mom far away, tries to stay strong.
- When his parents try to marry him to their neighbors' daughter, Ahmad runs away from home and his family try to find him.
- A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Karabakh to Hatamkhan Aga and Aga's son wants to go to French with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides to use magic and explode Paris.
- Story about the changes in agriculture, people of modern villages, the struggle for the restoration of democratic methods in the leadership.
- Displays lives of people in a village in harsh times of WWII.