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Nabat

2014 · 105 min

A quiet, devastating watch: sparse images and long silences accumulate into a profound meditation on loss and stubborn endurance.

Directed by: Elchin Guliyev
Genres: Drama
Starring: Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Vidadi Aliyev, Sabir Mammadov

Overview: The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.

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Directed by: Elchin Guliyev
Genres: Drama
Starring: Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Vidadi Aliyev, Sabir Mammadov

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
isolation
survival
war
loneliness
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	0
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Elchin Guliyev
Written by: Elkhan Nabiyev, Elchin Guliyev
Starring: Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Vidadi Aliyev, Sabir Mammadov, Ferhad Israfilov, Ramil Zeynalov, Rahila Mammadova, Rövsen Agayev, Hasan Safarov
Music: Hamed Sabet
Cinematography: Abdulrahim Basharat
Runtime: 105 min
Country: Azerbaijan
Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

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