Hasan Seyidbeyli Explained

Hasan Seyidbeyli
Birth Date:22 December 1920
Birth Place:Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Death Place:Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Occupation:film director, screenwriter and cinematographer
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 at 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

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

Memory

A street in Baku is named after Hasan Seyidbeyli.

Notes and References

  1. News: Сеидбейли Гасан Мехти-оглы. КИНО-ТЕАТР.ru.
  2. http://www.anl.az/down/he_serencamlar.pdf Respublika kino sənəti işçilərinə Azərbaycan SSR fəxri adlarının verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan SSR Ali Soveti Rəyasət Heyətinin 23 dekabr 1976-cı il tarixli Fərmanı
  3. News: Вечер, посвященный 90-летнему юбилею кинорежиссера и народного артиста Азербайджана Гасана Сеидбейли. Музейный Центр Министерства Культуры и Туризма Азербайджанской Pеспублики.
  4. News: Həsən Seyidbəyli. Adam.az.