Mukhtar Maniyev
Also Known As: Mukhtar Maniev, Muxtar Maniev, Мухтар Маниев
Biography: Mukhtar Gambar oghlu Maniyev (Azerbaijani: Muxtar Qəmbər oğlu Maniyev, April 4, 1935 — December 22, 2016) was an Azerbaijani actor, People's Artiste of Azerbaijan (2000). Mukhtar Maniyev was born in 1935 in Baku. After graduating as an engineer at the Petrochemical Institute, he submitted his documents to the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts and began his second level of education. Mukhtar Maniyev appeared in 157 films. He worked in the theater studio operating under the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio. On December 22, 2016, Mukhtar Maniyev died from diabetes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Birthday: April 04, 1935
Deathday: December 22, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Nizami
Overview: The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Black Volga
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Another Life
Overview: Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1987-02-16
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Our Teacher Jabish
Overview: Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other processes are shown in the course of the war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1969-12-30
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The Engagement Ring
Overview: Moshu’s family and their neighbours go to a seaside motel to spend their summer vacation. Things get awkward after Sara loses her engagement ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1991-05-06
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If I Die, Forgive Me
Overview: A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-10-24
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Can One Forgive Him?
Overview: The film is about the boy who got under bad when influence after losing his family he faced with tragic events.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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The Last Night of Childhood
Overview: Murad, a young man fails the entrance exam to the Institute and starts working at the meat factory. His cousin Rustam, a worker on a building site, fights with him against the dishonest people who sell pieces of meat from the factory. After a series of dramatic situations, Murad and Rustam manage to uncover the thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1968-12-08
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Find That Girl
Overview: Police are conducting a homicide investigation after man dies in car accident.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1970-03-31
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Golden Precipice
Overview: The oil industry is emerging in Baku. A poor young man named Jalil accidentally becomes the owner of an oilfield site. But unexpected wealth brings him one misfortune after another. His friends turn away from him, and the woman he loves leaves for another. A hero who dreamed of a home will never create a family.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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Nasimi
Overview: The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Babek
Overview: It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1979-12-02
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Saddle these Horses
Overview: The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You
Overview: The story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Teymur is in love with Farzali bey's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bey's son, Farzali bey still promises that if Teymur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Teymur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help ...
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-06-29
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The Unfinished Song
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1979-07-23
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The Road Story
Overview: After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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The Jinn in Microdistrict
Overview: The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Egit Iskenderov) finds an ancient lamp placed in the jaw. For the talented but poor character Rustam, this lamp shatters the sky. With the help of jinn, the young man suceeds: his play is made on anchor; his girlfriend, Maya (Natalia Tagiyeva), agrees to marry him, and the bar is in the apartment. But Rustam wants to achieve everything. When the jinn throws away his "owner," he unveils the secret: a person must believe in his own power, and there must be a strong desire to create miracles.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1986-02-15
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Business and Pleasure
Overview: Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Bay of Happiness
Overview: The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1978-04-02
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Park
Overview: Marat meets a girl named Vika in St. Petersburg.The girl wants Marat to take her to Baku. Marat’s love for Vika is growing day by day. The movie is about relations between Marat, Vika and his friend Mikail.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-01-30
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Koroghlu
Overview: The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
Genres: History War Romance Music
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1960-10-10
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Man Casts an Anchor
Overview: The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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Fair Wind
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Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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The Winds blow in Baku
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Genres: War Adventure History Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-01-30
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The Devil under the Windshield
Overview: A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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In the Fire
Overview: Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Four Sundays
Overview: After the novelette of the same name of Huseyn Abbaszadeh. The film is about friends' meeting who fought together as a partisans in Belorussian detached force.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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The Joke
Overview: Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-01-10
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Firangiz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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Happiness Cares
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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I Loved You More than Life
Overview: Biopic about general Hazi Aslanov, who died fighting Germans in WW2.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1985-12-29
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Boundless Night
Overview: A lonely old woman remember her youth, the days when she worked as a prostitute because of the poverty during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-06-12
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The Scoundrel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1988-05-31
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The Diversion
Overview: After fulfilling his duty in Afghan War, Zaur returns to his home Baku. He is trying to clarify the truth when he heard that his father was arrested.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-02-18
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The Avenger of Ganjabasar
Overview: The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-05-26
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Murder in the Night Train
Overview: The film is about lad who joined the underworld, after coming from Afghan war.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Wait for the Signal from the Sea
Overview: The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1986-09-14
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Hotel Room
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Garib in the Land of Jinn
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Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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All For The Best
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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If We're Together
Overview: The film is about the young people just finishing school.
Genres: Drama Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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The Frenchman
Overview: The film is about people who don't like national traditions and being Azerbaijani after returning from Europe.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Silver Truck
Overview: Madina is a young married woman who is mentally strong despite the problems she encounters.She has no children and her relationship with her husband is bad, although he loves her.She makes carpets which is a way for her to express her feelings. One day, she meets a man working in a circus. She gets to know him better and becomes transformed by him as he helps her improve her husband and the carpets she creates.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Wait for Me
Overview: The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in love with bey's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1980-12-30
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The Verdict
Overview: The film is about sportsman who tried to avenge to his friend's murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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An Old Ferry
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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The Poet
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Yellow Leaves in Summer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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The Knights of Black Lake
Overview: After the story of the same name of S. Veliyev. It's devoted about life concerns of oil workers and their children.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-08-30
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This Wonderful, Wonderful World
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Additional Trace
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Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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The First Hour of Life
Overview: The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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Surayya
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1987-09-15
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Clouds are Our Umbrellas
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Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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Çarvadarların izi ilə
Overview: The novel was written by Ilyas Afandiyev. The film is about road builders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-07-30
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The Native Shores
Overview: The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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Diploma Thesis
Overview: The sculptor Mahmud, an art student comes to his grandmother's village for vacation. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his diploma work. When the work has finished, the relatives of Zumrad demand Mahmud to marry her. A young artist runs away. After all, he can't marry all the models he's working with...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Witness
Overview: The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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White World
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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In the Wind's Eye
Overview: The film is about relations between different people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-12-30
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Straight to the Volcano
Overview: After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Long Live, Girls
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1973-03-13
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The Cool Guy
Overview: Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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One Fine Day
Overview: A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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