Rasim Balayev
Nacimiento : 1948-08-08, Aghsu, Azerbaijan
Historia
Rasim Akhmed oglu Balayev is an Azerbaijani cinema and theatrical actor. He starred in the leading roles in more than 60 Azerbaijani films.
Rasim Balayev was born on 8 August 1948 in Aghsu region of Azerbaijan. At the age of 15-16, he got involved in theater performances. Being from rural area, Rasim's family attempted to push him to choose a different career, though he never did and got enrolled in Azerbaijani Institute of Arts, from which he graduated in 1969. The actor's first film experience on big screen came with a short role in the film "Stars don't die away". Rasim Balayev's fame came after his part in 3 movies and participation in two film festivals: the 7th Soviet festival in Baku and 3rd International festival in Tashkent where he received an award for Best Actor and several proposals for main roles in future movies. Among his best performances are films Nasimi, Babek, The Scoundrel, Anecdote, and The Bat.
Policeman
“Goodbye Schmidt!”. A movie, which deeply hints, even though it doesn’t make to think about…* Emil Schmidt belongs to the German ethnicity and wishes to immigrate to Germany. He dreams to realize his goal by applying to the German Embassy with official requests every month, but at the very beginning, nothing is that simple, as it seems to be to him. He is being accepted, but only to the offices. He is being heard, but nobody listens to him. People feel sorry for him, but they don't help…. The remarkable hero story of this picture will share with us an autumn sorrow and a summer joy and will allow us to live through his fate and to keep silent about the meaning of life. What could be higher than human values, love and freedom? What could be closer to us than the Motherland? What could be more important for a person whose life can end at any moment?
The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Short films bring to life relationships between people, their love and longing, happy and sad moments. The main hero uniting these people, relations and different moments of life is the city of Baku.
A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
Mirzə Fətəli Axundzadə
Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left an indelible mark on the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature . The film depicts three periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age.
Mammad Aliyev
Soltan
A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.
Taxi Driver
The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided with border between northern and southern Azerbaijan.
Bahman
A man goes to prison for years for a crime his cousin committed. After his release he moves to his native village and lives a simple life. But when his cousin comes to visit, his old thoughts of revenge return.
Mirzayev
Sadiyar
Davud
Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.
Aghabey
Rasim
The film is about fellows spending time on the shore and about some events.
Ayaz
The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan.
Rahimov
Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Habibi
The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.
Hasanov
After fulfilling his duty in Afghan War, Zaur returns to his home Baku. He is trying to clarify the truth when he heard that his father was arrested.
Mammad Rustamov
Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him.
Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
Nazarov
A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
Ali
The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Egit Iskenderov) finds an ancient lamp placed in the jaw. For the talented but poor character Rustam, this lamp shatters the sky. With the help of jinn, the young man suceeds: his play is made on anchor; his girlfriend, Maya (Natalia Tagiyeva), agrees to marry him, and the bar is in the apartment. But Rustam wants to achieve everything. When the jinn throws away his "owner," he unveils the secret: a person must believe in his own power, and there must be a strong desire to create miracles.
Salman
Idrisov
Salim bey
The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.
Yagub
After the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli.
Mammad
Hatem
While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a child together. When their study draws to an end, Christiane and Hatem have to decide if they want to share their future together. After Hatem explains to Christiane that as a woman she will not be able to work in Syria, Christiane suggests moving to the GDR together. For Hatem, however, this is out of the question, since he considers it a betrayal of his country. Thus, the two young people are forced to go separate ways.
Israfil Bey
After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of National State Security.
Nazim
Nijat
The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in love with bey's daughter.
Babak Al-Xurrami
It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.
Elmar
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
Ali
Jabi
Young inspector investigates a murder in small town.
Tahir
After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
Sanan
Murad
Beyrak
Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.
Azer
The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.
Imadaddin Nasimi
The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.
Aziz
The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
Teacher
The film is devoted problems of protection of ecology.
Sultanov
Police
Goodbye, Schmidt
