Balaxanı-Sabunçu polis idarəsi süvari qorodovoyların at oynatmaları

Balaxanı-Sabunçu Polis İdarəsi Süvari Qorodovoylarının At Oynatmaları
Azerbaijani: Balaxanı-Sabunçu Polis İdarəsi Süvari Qorodovoylarının At Oynatmaları
Directed byAlexandre Michon
Written byAlexandre Michon
Produced byAlexandre Michon
CinematographyAlexandre Michon
Release date
  • 4 August 1898 (1898-08-04)
[1]
Running time
1 minute
CountryRussian Empire
LanguageSilent

Balaxanı-Sabunçu Polis İdarəsi Süvari Qorodovoylarının At Oynatmaları (English: Horse exercises by the mounted gorodovoy of the Balakhani–Sabunchu Police Department) is an 1898 short actuality film directed, produced and photographed by Azerbaijani cinema pioneer Alexandre Michon. It records mounted policemen performing riding exercises in the Balakhani–Sabunchu district near Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. The film is among the earliest motion pictures made in present-day Azerbaijan.[2][3]

Background and exhibition

Michon began filming actuality scenes in Baku in 1898 using a Lumière cinematograph.[4] Contemporary and retrospective accounts indicate that short films titled The Horse Guards of the Balakhani–Sabunchu Police Department Riding and Oil Gusher in Balakhani were shown in Baku during early August 1898.[5] The film is listed in Azerbaijani film catalogues as a one-minute silent documentary shot in and around Baku.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Azerbaijani Cinema Turns 110". Visions of Azerbaijan. 21 June 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  2. ^ Kazımzadə, Aydın (2003). Azərbaycan kinosu — 2: filmlərin izahlı kataloqu (1898–2002) (in Azerbaijani). Vol. 2. Baku: Nağıl evi. p. 7.
  3. ^ Drubek, Natascha (2021). "Hidden Figures. Rewriting the History of Cinema in the Empire of the Tsars (1896–1918)". Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  4. ^ Drubek, Natascha (2021). "Hidden Figures. Rewriting the History of Cinema in the Empire of the Tsars (1896–1918)". Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  5. ^ "Azerbaijani Cinema Turns 110". Visions of Azerbaijan. 21 June 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  6. ^ Kazımzadə, Aydın (2003). Azərbaycan kinosu — 2: filmlərin izahlı kataloqu (1898–2002) (in Azerbaijani). Vol. 2. Baku: Nağıl evi. p. 7.


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