Elmira Shabanova
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Elmira Shabanova.
Born: November 1, 1940
Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Known For
Melody of Space
An old violinist thinks over his past life on the eve of the 80th birthday. His reflections result in looking for once composed but then forgotten melody. A chance meeting with dancer Rena takes him away to his lost love. He realizes that a person who has betrayed himself is doomed to tragic finale.
Good Bye, Southern City
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
Surayya
Suraya, a young milkmaid from a remote mountain village, is searching for her fiancé Seifetdin in the city. She learns that he has long been married and has a son who lives with his elderly, sick grandfather, as Seifetdin is serving a sentence for hooliganism. Surya takes the boy to the village to care for him, but then Seifetdin's wife shows up...
The Circle
The film is about political events which took place in 1989.
Strange Time
The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.
Tahmina
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.
Mystery of the Ship Clock
The chain of adventures of a young ten-year-old Baku boy Alik who ran away from home led him to Odesa. Here, the boy made friends with his peers and many other people, and learned his first life lessons. He returned home accompanied by his father and mother, for whom their son's escape became a test of the family's strength.
Last Night of Last Year
The film is dedicated to a mother who protects the warmth of her hearth, the peace and well-being of her family.
Inner City
"At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
The Window of Sadness
Film about growing up in a small village in Azerbaijan.
Filmography
as Nargiz
as Mina Soltan xanım
as Fatma
as Mahmudun anası
as Ahmad’s neighbor
as Xanımana
as Rana's Aunt
as Bəyim xanım
as Şərəf
as Orkhan's Mother
as Aliya
as Ismayil's Mother
as Tamara
as Mother
as Rana's Mother
as Arif's Friend
as Bayaz
as Hamida
as Alik's Mother
as Hamida
as Sevda
as Leyla