Zarnigar Aghakishiyeva

Known for Acting

11/6/1945

Guba, Azerbaijan

Biography

Zarnigar Agakisiyeva (Azerbaijani: Zərnigar Fəti qızı Ağakişiyeva; 1945–2018) was an Azerbaijani theatre and cinema actress, and recipient of the People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan award (2000), Shohrat Order, and Azerbaijan SSR State Prize laureate.

Known For (18 credits)

5.0

Movie

The Dream

2001

A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.

Movie

This Wonderful, Wonderful World

1999

After the country transitions to a market economy, the psychiatric hospital is left without funding. The chief doctor (Yaşar Nuri) releases the patients to their homes. However, the outside world turns out to be even more insane than the patients themselves. Seeing the state of society, the patients are forced to return to the hospital. Although this film portrays the lives of people with mental illnesses, it actually uses dark humor to highlight the ugliness and shortcomings in our society and everyday surroundings.

Movie

Thank You

1998

The teacher, who has the idea of getting married, cannot fulfill his wish due to poverty. In the end, he decides to make a belt from Soviet flags and earn money.

8.0

Movie

All For The Best

1997

The events occur during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address, two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin to identify the soldier, they find out that he is, in fact, Armenian - former citizen of Baku.

6.0

Movie

Strange Time

1996

The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.

Movie

Junior Lieutenant

1996

The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.

5.6

Movie

The Bat

1995

In a Azerbaijan, in the beginning of this century, the first films made in the history of cinema are shown.The characters meet each other in a room. Three characters who will witness the linking up of their destinies through their common love for this new captivating art.

Movie

The Frenchman

1995

The film is about people who don't like national traditions and being Azerbaijani after returning from Europe.

Movie

Black Volga

1994

The film talks about countless crimes committed by the criminal group led by "Panjali Aslan" and eventually the destruction of this criminal group by law enforcement agencies.

6.5

Movie

Tahmina

1993

This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society.

5.3

Movie

The Scoundrel

1988

Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.

Movie

Here And There

1987

A television play