Salman Dadashov

The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.

This is a story about World War II. The adultery of her husband didn't wreck her life because she could stand all difficulties with a little help of her faithfull friends.

The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

An old, boring technician remembers a cruelly suppressed strike of oil industry workers in Baku.