Stop by Lecture Hall 238 on April 2, 2009 starting at 7:00 pm to view One Evening, Many Flavors: A Selection of Short Films from Azerbaijan. The feature films tonight will be All for the Best (A film by Vagif Mustafayev, 1997) and Scoundrel (A film by Vagif Mustafayev, 1988).
All for the Best ? this film?s plot develops within the context of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. After a corpse is found in a zinc coffin with an ambiguous address, two families are in shock. Having cut the lid of the coffin for identification, the families find out that he is not Azerbaijanian but Armenian ? a former dweller of Baku. Conflict and uncertainty leads to an original suggestion for peace between these two nations in this somewhat black comedy.
Scoundrel ? The Scoundrel (Azerbaijani: Yaramaz, Russian: Mep?aBeų) is an Azerbaijani film shot in the nation?s capital as the Soviet Union was beginning to crumble. This comedy exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in the Republic of Azerbaijan through the eyes of a na
