{"id":174595,"date":"2016-03-27T23:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/azerbaijani-filmmaker-dies-at-77\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:58:26","slug":"azerbaijani-filmmaker-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijani-filmmaker-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani filmmaker dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/52464\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52464\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/52464\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52464\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  Tofig Ismayilov, a prominent Azerbaijani film director, artist, professor, and academic, passed away on March 25 from a protracted illness at the age of 77.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ismayilov was born in Baku on April 6, 1939. He graduated from the Acting Department of the Azerbaijani State Institute of Arts, where he took film directing classes from Adil Iskanderov, a famous Azerbaijani film director and People\u2019s Artist of the USSR. Ismayilov took directing classes in Moscow from Andrey Tarkovskiy (1968-1970). He worked on AzTV, and the film studio \u201cAzerbaijanfilm\u201d (1969-1988). From 1971, Ismayilov taught film-making, and headed the Acting Department at the State Institute of Arts. From 1994 till 2006, he worked in Turkey for the State University of Arts Memar-Sinan and served as an advisor to the Municipality of Culture of Istanbul.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Turkey, Ismayilov composed his famous encyclopedia \u201cHistory of Cinema of Turkic People,\u201d which covered the cinematographic histories of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Turkey. Ismayilov\u2019s scientific articles were published in more than 50 Turkish articles and journals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He directed more than 30 films and documentaries. He created Azerbaijan\u2019s first three-part movie based on Mekhti Hussein\u2019s novel \u201cAbsheron.\u201d His rich and varied cinematographic legacy includes films such as \u201cStones of our town,\u201d \u201cMusic teacher,\u201d \u201cSpecial position,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m creating a song.\u201d Ismayilov\u2019s film \u201cHard Times\u201d was included in the list of the best 17 Soviet movies screened in the US. He also shot films exploring youth themes, such as \u201cGuys of our neighborhood,\u201d \u201cLakhydzh,\u201d and \u201cChovgan game.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ismayilov was an actor and a screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for a famous film, \u201cMemories of Muslim Magomayev,\u201d which consists of three parts: \u00abS\u0259n m\u0259nim n\u0259\u011fm\u0259ms\u0259n\u00bb (\u201cYou are my song\u201d), \u00abSadiq dostlar\u00bb (\u201cLoyal friends\u201d) \u0438 \u00abMavi d\u0259niz\u00bb (\u201cBlue sea\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tofig Ismayilov, a prominent Azerbaijani film director, artist, professor, and academic, passed away on March 25 from a protracted illness at the age of 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":52464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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