Nasimi

The film tells the life of the Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi. The events take place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The region is torn by wars and internal conflict. Nasimi is known across the East for his poems. He builds his own philosophical path. He defends a way of thinking that puts the human being at its centre. He writes about moral values. His poems carry criticism of the order of his day. He criticises the society itself as well. His teacher Naimi holds an important place in the film. His distance from the rulers grows. The authorities of the day treat his ideas as heresy. In the end he is executed for his beliefs. The film draws his life as a tragic line. It is adapted from a novel by Isa Muganna. Rasim Balayev and Ismail Osmanli appear in the ninety six minute film, a Soviet production Hasan Seyidbeyli finished in 1974.