Anecdote (1989)

Original title

Lətifə

Directed by

Nizami Musayev

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 16m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in the late 1980s, this Soviet film follows a series of absurd mishaps in a failed bureaucratic system. It focuses on how corruption and decay affect ordinary people and officials in the Azerbaijan SSR.

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What happens

The Anecdote (Azerbaijani: Lətifə, Russian: Анекдот) is a full-length Azerbaijani film shot in Baku in 1989. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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