Gamar Salamzadeh

Gamar Ali Kuli gizi Salamzade (Azerb.: Qəmər Əliqulu qızı Salamzadə, 5 May 1908, Julfa, Nakhchivan – 20 April 1994, Baku) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet film director and screenwriter. She was the first Azerbaijani female film director and the creator of the first children’s film in Azerbaijan.

Life Gamar Salamzade was born on 5 May 1908 in Julfa, Nakhchivan. In 1912 her family moved to Tbilisi where in 1919 her father, a famous poet Aligulu Gamkusar, was killed by Mensheviks. After graduating from the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, Salamzade in 1929 went to study at the Moscow State College of Cinematography learning from Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein. The film was considered lost for many years until it was rediscovered in Russian State Film Fund and shown to Azerbaijani audience in 2008. She became the screenwriter and director of the documentary Song of Healing about a doctor Husniyya Diyarova.

Salamzade is an author of the book The world seen through a small window.

Gamar Salamzade died in 1994 in Baku at the age of 86.

Personal life Gamar Salamzade was married to People’s Artist Salam Salamzade and had two daughters.