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Rustam Ibragimbekov

Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born February 5, 1939Died March 11, 2022 (83 years)
Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibragimbekov (Azerbaijani: Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov; Russian: Рустам Ибрагимбеков; born 5 February 1939) is a Soviet, Azerbaijani screenwriter, dramatist and producer, well known beyond his home Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Union. He is the chair of the Cinematographers' Union of Azerbaijan and director of the Ibrus Theatre.

Rustam Ibrahimbeyov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. His father was a professor of art history who hailed from Shamakhi. Ibrahimbeyov is the younger brother of Magsud Ibrahimbeyov, an Azerbaijani writer and politician. Rustam Ibrahimbeyov graduated from Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, then studied script writing and film directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His writing credits include more than 40 film and television scripts, numerous plays and pieces of prose, and nearly all of his scripts were eventually made into full feature or TV films. Since the 1970s, he has collaborated with Nikita Mikhalkov. Urga, Territory of Love, directed by Mikhalkov and released in North America as Close to Eden, won the Golden Lion Award in the Venice Film Festival, as well as the Felix Award in Berlin as Best European Film. Close to Eden was nominated for American Film Academy Award (Oscar) in 1995 as Best Foreign Language Film. Burnt by the Sun (directed by Nikita Mikhalkov) received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994 and Grand Prize of the Jury at 47th Cannes International Film Festival.

Ibrahimbeyov is a well-known writer. Several collected works were published in Russia, Azerbaijan and abroad. He also wrote over ten theatre plays that were staged in numerous theatres. Rustam Ibrahimbeyov is also credited with several full feature films which he directed. In 2001, Ibrahimbeyov founded Ibrus, a cultural centre in Baku functioning as a theatre where plays are acted in both Azeri and Russian. Ibragimbekov is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Filmmakers' Unions (CFU), which represents filmmakers from all of the former Soviet republics, Secretary of the Russian Filmmakers' Union, and member of European Film Academy and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He splits his time between Baku, Moscow, and Los Angeles.

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Known For

  • Burnt by the Sun
  • East/West
  • The Barber of Siberia
  • Nomad: The Warrior
  • Close to Eden
  • White Sun of the Desert
  • Gagma napiri
  • Broken Bridges
  • Khrani menya, moy talisman
  • Birthday
  • Spokoynyy den v kontse voyny
  • Park
  • Bir Cänub Shähärindä
  • L'autostop
  • Aleksandr. Nevskaya bitva
  • Good Bye, Southern City
  • Istintaq
  • Broken Bridges
  • Özgä ömür
  • Pered zakrytoy dveryu

Filmography

2016
2010
2008
Birds of Paradise · as Screenplay
2006
Broken Bridges · as Screenplay
2006
Good Bye, Southern City · as Screenplay
2005
Nomad: The Warrior · as Screenplay
2005
The Night Is Bright · as Screenplay
2003
Ovsunçu · as Screenplay
2001
The Heart of the Bear · as Screenplay
1999
Broken Bridges · as Screenplay
1999
East/West · as Screenplay
1998
The Barber of Siberia · as Screenplay
1995
1994
Burnt by the Sun · as Screenplay
1991
Close to Eden · as Screenplay
1991
L'autostop · as Screenplay
1989
Ölsäm... bagisla · as Screenplay
1988
1987
Özgä ömür · as Screenplay
1986
1984
Park · as Screenplay
1983
Gami saatinin sirri · as Screenplay
1982
Pered zakrytoy dveryu · as Screenplay
1982
Isgüzar safar · as Screenplay
1980
Struktura momenta · as Screenplay
1979
Istintaq · as Screenplay
1978
Bir ailalik bag evi · as Screenplay
1978
Birthday · as Screenplay
1976
Ürak... ürak... · as Screenplay
1976
Prestuplenie: Neterpimost · as Screenplay
1970
1970
White Sun of the Desert · as Screenplay
1969
Povest' o chekiste · as Screenplay
1969
Bir Cänub Shähärindä · as Screenplay

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