Hasan Seyidbeyli

Hasan Seyidbeyli

Plaque on building where Azerbaijani film director and writer Hasan Seyidbeyli lived in Baku
Born (1920-12-22)22 December 1920
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Died 25 June 1980(1980-06-25) (aged 59)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Occupation film director, screenwriter and cinematographer
Ethnicity Azerbaijani
Citizenship Soviet

Hasan Seyidbeyli (Azerbaijani: Həsən Mehdi oğlu Seyidbəyli) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, dramatist, screenwriter, film director, and People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (23.12.1976).[1][2]

Biography

Hasan Seyidbeyli was born on December 22, 1920 in Baku, the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1938-1939, he studied at Leningrad Institute of Film Directors. In 1942, his literary activity began. In 1943, he continued his education on the director faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (with S.Eisenstein and G.Kozintsev).[3]

Hasan Seyidbeyli is the author of such screenplays as To my dear nation (1954), Under the sultry sky (1957), On distant shores (1958), Soviet Azerbaijan, and Perfection.

He is the author of screenplays and director of films such as Telephonist girl (1962), Why are you silent? (1962), Find the girl (1970), and Value of happiness (1976).

Hasan Seyidbeyli is the director of “Nesimi”, which was awarded the first-place prize at the VII All-Union Festival in Baku.

From 1963 to 1980, he was the chairman of Azerbaijan Union of Filmmakers. Hasan Seyidbeyli died on June 25, 1980 in Baku.

Filmography

Year Film Director
1947 From Baku to Goy Gol
1949 Large way
1949 In summer cottages of Quba and Tartarchay valley
1954 To my dear nation
1957 Under the sultry sky
1958 On distant shores
1960 Dishonestly earned money
1960 A road incident
1962 Telephonist girl
1963 Island of miracles
1964 Force of gravity
1966 Gipsy girl
1966 Why are you silent?
1969 Our teacher Jebish
1970 Find the girl
1972 Soviet Azerbaijan
1973 Nesimi
1974 Pages of life
1976 The clouds are our umbrella
1976 Concerns for happiness
1979 Toral and Zeri
1979 Perfection
1980 Goodbye, my friend
1980 His unlucky love
2002 Hasan Seyidbeyli-the filmmaker
2009 Cinema, living in colors[4]

Memory

A street in Baku is named after Hasan Seyidbeyli.

References

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