Hasan Seyidbeyli

Hasan Seyidbeyli was an Azerbaijani film director, screenwriter, writer and dramatist.

Biography Hasan Seyidbeyli was born on December 22, 1920, in Baku. He graduated from the 132nd City Secondary School here. Hasan Mehdi oglu Seyidbeyli studied at the Leningrad Institute of Cinematography Engineers in 1938–1939 and at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow from 1943 to 1951, specializing in film direction. In 1942, his literary activity began. In 1943, he continued his education at the director faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (with Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Kozintsev). Member of the Communist Party since 1955.

Hasan Seyidbeyli served as the First Secretary of the Board of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union from 1963 to 1980. His dramatic works, "Exam," "Gold Seekers," and "Closed Doors," were staged both in Azerbaijan and abroad. His novellas "On the Banks of the Caspian" (1953), "Our Astrada" (1956), "The Telephone Girl" (1960), and his novels "From Front to Front" (1961), "Years Pass" (1973, co-authored with I. Qasımov), "Shipyard" (1975), "Flower" (1978), and plays "Brave Souls Love the Sea" (1954) and "Why Do You Live?" (1959, both co-authored with I. Qasımov) explore the labor and moral purity of his contemporaries. His novel "On Distant Shores" (1954, co-authored with I. Qasımov) was dedicated to the Soviet Hero M. Hüseynzadeh. His works have been translated into several foreign languages.His films have been awarded prizes and diplomas at All-Union Film Festivals.

A personal archive of director Hasan Seyidbeyli has been created at the Film Fund.

He died in Baku at the age of 59.

Filmography From Baku to Göygöl (film, 1947, ) – Director The Great Road (film, 1949, ) – Director In the Gardens of Quba and the Tartar River Valley (film, 1949, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer To My Native People (film, 1954, ) – Screenplay Writer Under the Scorching Sun (film, 1957, ) – Screenplay Writer On Distant Shores (film, 1958, ) – Screenplay Writer Incident on the Highway (film, 1960, ) – Screenplay Writer Profit from the Crooked Path (film, 1960, ) – Screenplay Writer The Telephone Girl (film, 1962, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer Island of Miracles (film, 1963, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer Gravitational Force (film, 1964, ) (Film, Kinoalmanac)– Director, Screenplay Writer, "Chairman" role The Elevator Girl (film, 1966) (Film, Kinoalmanac, ) – Screenplay Writer Why Are You Silent? (film, 1966, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer Our Teacher Cəbiş (film, 1969, ) – Director

Soviet Azerbaijan (film, 1972, ) – Screenplay Writer Nəsimi (film, 1973, ) – Director; The film includes thoughts about Imamaddin Nəsimi. Pages of Life (film, 1974, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer, Artistic Director Concerns of Happiness (film, 1976, ) – Director, Screenplay Writer Our Umbrella is Clouds (film, 1976, ) – Artistic Director Maturity (film, 1979, ) – Screenplay Writer Toral and Zəri (film, 1979, ) – Screenplay Writer His Troubled Love (film, 1980, ) – Artistic Director Goodbye, My Friend (film, 1980, ) – Screenplay Writer Film Director Hasan Seyidbeyli (film, 2002, ) – The film is dedicated to Həsən Seyidbəyli. The Man Who Loved Cinema. Hasan Seyidbeyli (film, 2015, ) – The film is dedicated to Hasan Seyidbeyli.

Awards and honors

Order of the Badge of Honour (1959) Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970) People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1976)