The Bat
Director: A.Salayev.
Screenwriter: A.Salayev, K.Aslanov.
Director of photography: B.Rafiyev, Y.Varnovsky.
Art director: Sh.Najafzadeh.
Composer: R.Mirishli.
Cast of characters: R.Balayev, M.Lipkina, T.Khamidov, S.Rasulova, R.Mammadov, Z.Aghakishiyeva.
Synopsis: In a Azerbaijan, in the beginning of this century, the first films made in the history of cinema are shown.The characters who meet each other in a room. Three chraracters who will witness the linking up of their destimes through their common love for this new captivating art.

The white screen of the dreams. "My film is about dearth:dearth as a film subject, dearth via film and the dearth of cinema.The heroine dies in a movie-house. She watches the screen absent-mindedly, along with her blind killer whose blidness also results from his love of cinema.The bling man shoots in the direction of the sound, of her despairing cry. He became blind when talking movies first applared.The main characters in the film are attracted to each other, which takes them inexorably toward dearth.He an older man, an academic arts specialist, sees her simply as life without the curse of the image.She, in turn, loves his intellect, his erudition. The fate of my protugists is just aas tragic as the attempt to unite art and life. For the hero, possessing the itself. But he can only capture her by killing her. The means she uses to escape him involve the different arts, which the film has divided into chapters: Visual Art Thratre, Film, Architecture, Literature.

© "Interturan" , 1995, 2340, 35mm, 9 parth, colour.