Long Live, Girls

Overview

The plot of the film is based on real events that took place in the summer of 1958 on one of the beaches of Absheron, when Tofik Huseynov, a schoolboy from Baku, drowned in the sea while saving drowning children. The film begins before the opening credits: on a deserted beach by the raging sea, a young man, exhausted, pulls drowning girls out of the waves. One, then another, then a third... Then he rushes for the fourth, but drowns with her.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 13, 1973

Original language

Azerbaijani

Spoken languages

Azerbaijani, Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Azerbaijanfilm

Cast

Mukhtar Maniyev,Dadash Kazimov,Tatyana Kharitonova,Sadiq Hasanzada,Huseynagha Sadigov,Rafael Dadashov,Arzu Safarova,Maleyka Aghazadeh,Omur Naghiyev,Sofa Basirzadeand 7 more

Director

Eldar Quliyev

Writer

Intigam Gasimzadeh,Alla Akhundova,Huseyn Seyidzadeh,Nataliya Shneyer

Cinematography

Arif Narimanbekov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6456374