New Horizon (film)

New Horizon
New Horizon
Directed by	Grigory Braginsky; Aga-Rza Kuliev;
Written by	Imran Kasumov
Produced by	Mukhtar Dadashev; Fedor Novitsky;
Starring	Ismail Efendivev; Rza Afganli; Alesker Alekperov; Ali Gurbanov;
Cinematography	Anton Zenkovich
Edited by	Anton Komrakov
Music by	Niyazi
Production; company	Baku Film Studio
Release date	December 29, 1940;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	USSR/Azerbaijan
Language	Azerbaijani

New Horizon (Yeni horizont) is a 1940 Soviet drama produced by the Baku Film Studio (the Azerbaijani SSR's state film production company), starring Ismail Efendivev, Rza Afganli, Alesker Alekperov, and Ali Gurbanov.

Plot[edit]

The film tells about the life of Baku oil workers and the discovery of new oil fields. The conflict in the film is based on the contradiction of inertia, conservatism and ahamism, which are the remnants of anility, with its innovative idea in the world of science.^[1]^[2]

Cast[edit]

Ismail Efendiev - Adil Kərimov
Rza Afganli -Professor Əhmədov
Alesker Alekperov -Partiya təşkilatçısı Aslanov
Ali Gurbanov - Heydər
Sofa Bashirzade - Validə
Aziza Mamedova - Fatma
Movsun Sanani - Ruben
Mustafa Mardanov - Trest müdiri
Ali-Sattar Melikov - Rüstəm Abbasov
V. Chavchavadze - Tibb bacısı

Production[edit]

Written by: Imran Kasumov
Directed by: Aga-Rza Kuliev, Grigory Braginsky
Photography directors: Fyodor Novitsky, Mukhtar Dadashov
Music by: Niyazi
Sound engineer: Ilya Ozersky
Lyricist: Aliaga Wahid
Assistant stage manager: Latif Safarov, Mamed Alili (the latter is uncredited)
Assistant cameraman: Teyyub Akhundov
Cutter and assistant stage manager: Zeinab Kazimova

Sources[edit]

Şəmsəddin Abbasov. “Sovet Azərbaycanının kinosu” //Kommunist.- 1958.- 29 avqust.
Azerbaijan SSR cinematography. Cinema: Encyclopedical dictionary / Сhief editor S. I. Yutkevich; Editorial board: Y.S. Afanasyev, V.E.Baskakov, I.V. Vaysfeld and others. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. — page 12.
Azerbaijan SSR cinematography. Cinema: Encyclopedical dictionary / Сhief editor S. I. Yutkevich; Editorial board: Y.S. Afanasyev, V.E.Baskakov, I.V. Vaysfeld and others. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. — page 222.
Azərbaycan SSR Elmlər Akademiyası. Memarlıq və İncəsənət İnstitutu. Nazim Sadıxov. "Ağarza Quliyev haqqında qeyd". Azərbaycan bədii kinosu (1920-1935-ci illər). Bakı: Elm, 1970.- səh. 26
Azərbaycan Respublikası Mədəniyyət Nazirliyi. C.Cabbarlı adına "Azərbaycanfilm" kinostudiyası. Aydın Kazımzadə. Bizim "Azərbaycanfilm". 1923-2003-cü illər. Bakı: Mütərcim, 2004.- səh. 63-64.
Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası: Azərbaycan. Ramiz Məmmədov. Kino. Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası Elmi Mərkəzi, 2007.- səh. 813.

References[edit]

^ "Новый горизонт". hdrabbit (in Russian).
^ "Cinema for the "Soviet East": National Fact and Revolutionary Fiction in Early Azerbaijani Film". Cambridge University.

External links[edit]

New Horizon at IMDb

[1] "Новый горизонт". hdrabbit (in Russian).

[2] "Cinema for the "Soviet East": National Fact and Revolutionary Fiction in Early Azerbaijani Film". Cambridge University.

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