Bath Culture: Bath Custom-Tradition in Azerbaijani National Films

Abstract

Bath culture emerging with the cleansing power of water is a civilizational experience coming down from past to present. The conducted archaeological and ethnographic studies have proved that the mankind have used baths since ancient times. The bath, which was highly appreciated by all nations, has been an integral part of their cultures and lifestyles. Although this concept presented as a place is a variable to be constructed and transformed, it denotes a process determining human relations and cultural manifestations in the social structure. The spread of baths is also connected with the features of migration factors transferring the mankind’s experience, habits and lifestyle to new settlements. 
 The paper studies the emergence and development history of baths, the physiological and hygienic aspects of the effect of baths on the human body. The main role of films in the human life and the skillful illumination of bath scenes in various styles in Azerbaijani films (“Qanun namina”, “If Not That One, Then This One”, “I Want To Get Married”, “The Stab in the Back”) are noted in the article, as well.