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Cast

Mirzaagha Aliyev

Mirzaagha Aliyev

Molla Mirza Abdurrahim

Mustafa Mardanov

Mustafa Mardanov

Muzdur Gulu

Ibrahim Azeri

Ibrahim Azeri

Jafar

Mirseyfaddin Kirmanshahli

Mirseyfaddin Kirmanshahli

Bey

Kazim Ziya

Kazim Ziya

Molla Rovzakhan

Mohsun Sanani

Mohsun Sanani

Gochu

Crew

Arkadi Yalovoy

Arkadi Yalovoy

Director of Photography

Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh

Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh

Director

Pavel Blyakhin

Pavel Blyakhin

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In the Name of God

19253.7 / 1057 min
Drama

Overview

Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.