A film about time and timelessness, about personality and facelessness, about the need for change and the desire to get used to what is - The drama of a man whose fate was predetermined at the moment of birth. "Chekist orphan" - he was obliged to go through his terrible path and could not go through it. He became what he became - a KGB colonel.
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Cast
35 people
Andrei Bubashkin
Ika
Also in
The Waiting Room
Wasp Honey
Vadim Lobanov
Sergei Sergeievich
Known for
A Visitor to a Museum
Dead Man's Letters
Teymur Bakirzade
Vagif Mustafayev
Jasarat Guliyev
Yelena Denisevich
Ovazklich Sharliyev
Bakujan
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Amin Novruzov
Teymur Bakirzadeh
Oksana Kaliberda
Nadya
Also in
Love at the Death Island
Sheremetyevo 2
Agshin Alizadeh
Lyudmila Dukhovnaya
Klara Shagenovna
Also in
The Truth of the Moment
Vacancy
Teymur Bakirzadeh Director · Vagif Mustafayev Screenplay Amin Novruzov Cinematographer
First release November 10, 1997 · Produced in Azerbaijan, Belarus · Languages Azerbaijani, Russian
Production
Ashkarfilm
Production
Commercial Bank Billur
Production
Azerbaijanfilm
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Belarusfilm
Production
Azerbaijan · Belarus
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Languages
Original title
Ləqəbi «IKA»dır
Original language
Azerbaijani
Spoken on screen
Azerbaijani · Russian
Release dates
Belarus · November 10, 1997
Theatrical · Minsk International Film Festival «Listapad»
Azerbaijan · August 2, 2002
Theatrical · Festival «Our unknown cinema» in Baku
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