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Rustam Ibragimbekov is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Azerbaïdjanais born on 5 february 1939 at Baku (Azerbaïdjan)

Rustam Ibragimbekov

Rustam Ibragimbekov
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Birth name Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibrahimbeyov
Nationality Azerbaïdjan
Birth 5 february 1939 (85 years) at Baku (Azerbaïdjan)
Awards USSR State Prize, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibrahimbeyov, also spelled Ibragimbekov (Azerbaijani: Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov/روستم ابراهیمبئیوف; Russian: Рустам Ибрагимбеков; born February 5, 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.

Biography

Rustam Ibragimbekov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR to Mammad Ibrahimbeyov and Fatima Meshadibeyova. His father was a professor of art history who hailed from Shamakhy. Ibragimbekov is the younger brother of Magsud Ibrahimbeyov, an Azerbaijani writer and politician.

Rustam Ibragimbekov 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. Among his most noteworthy film work is White Sun of the Desert (1970, Белое солнце пустыни), Interrogation (1979, Допрос), Guard Me, My Talisman (1986, Храни меня, мой талисман), Urga (Урга, Территория любви, 1991), Burnt by the Sun (1994, Утомлённые солнцем), The Barber of Siberia (1998, Сибирский цирюльник), East/West (1999), Broken Bridges (2004) and Nomad (2005/2007).

White Sun of the Desert (1969), for which he co-wrote the script with Valentin Yezhov, has become a cult film in former USSR. Russian cosmonauts consider it a good omen to watch before they prepare for a launch.

Since the 1970s, Ibragimbekov collaborated closely as scriptwriter 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 also 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; their film “The Barber of Siberia” was the most expensive European production of 1997. Ibragimbekov was co-screenwriter with Sergei Bodrov of French director Régis Wargnier's Oscar-nominated 1999 movie "East/West". In 2008, Ibragimbekov admitted having effectively stopped working with Mikhalkov due to political disagreements between them.

In 1987 he was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

In addition to being a screenwriter, Rustam Ibragimbekov 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 Ibragimbekov is also credited with several full feature films which he directed.

In 2001, Ibragimbekov 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, Azerbaijan, Moscow, Russia and Los Angeles, California, where he owns a house in Santa Monica.

Best films

East/West (1999)
(Scriptwriter)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rustam Ibragimbekov (17 films)

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Director

Interrogation, 1h26
Directed by Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rasim Ojagov
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rasim Balayev, Evgueni Lebedev, Mirzə Babayev
Rating76% 3.8290353.8290353.8290353.8290353.829035
The investigator Seifi Ganiev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds.

Scriptwriter

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus, 3h1
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Dmitri Dyuzhev, Sergueï Garmach, Evgueni Mironov, Mikhail Yefremov
Roles Writer
Rating43% 2.156912.156912.156912.156912.15691
The film begins in June 1941. Five years have passed since the lives and destinies of Colonel Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia, their daughter Nadia, as well as those of Mitya and the Sverbitski family, were irrevocably changed: it has meant five years of incarceration for General Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov), the former Revolutionary hero betrayed by Stalin. He escapes certain death in the Gulag and fights on the Eastern Front as a private.
The Other Bank, 1h30
Directed by George Ovashvili
Genres Drama
Roles Adaptation
Rating76% 3.8277153.8277153.8277153.8277153.827715
Le jeune Tedo, douze ans, réfugié en Georgie à la suite du conflit en Abkhazie, vit avec sa mère à Tbilissi, où elle se prostitue pour survivre. Lui-même vit de petites rapines avec d'autres enfants. Surprenant sa mère avec un de ses clients, il décide de partir à la recherche de son père malade resté à Tkvarchéli en Abkhazie, et qu'il n'a pas revu depuis quatre ans. Il y parvient après de violentes épreuves qui constituent l'essentiel du film.
Birds of Paradise, 1h34
Directed by Roman Balaïan
Origin Ukraine
Actors Oksana Akinchina, Oleg Yankovsky
Roles Ecrivain du scénario
Rating60% 3.0208653.0208653.0208653.0208653.020865
Broken Bridges
Directed by Steven Goldmann
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Toby Keith, Kelly Preston, Lindsey Haun, Burt Reynolds, Tess Harper, Willie Nelson
Rating58% 2.9116052.9116052.9116052.9116052.911605
Bo Price (Keith), a down-and-out country singer, has returned home for his brother's funeral following a military training accident. While there, he reunites with his true love, Angela Delton (Preston), a Miami news reporter who has also returned home for her brother's funeral. Bo also meets their 16-year-old daughter, Dixie Leigh Delton (Haun), for the first time. Since Bo walked away from Angela while she was still pregnant, Dixie has never met him or his side of the family. Dixie has experimented with alcohol, but is able to break free with the help of her now-sober father. With her father's musical blood running through her veins, Dixie closes the movie by singing a song she wrote at the memorial for the fallen soldiers.
Nomad: The Warrior, 1h47
Directed by Ivan Passer, Sergueï Bodrov, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Talgat Temenov
Origin Kazakhstan
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Jay Hernández, Kuno Becker, Marc Dacascos, Ayanat Ksenbai, Jason Scott Lee, Archie Kao
Roles Ecrivain
Rating57% 2.896212.896212.896212.896212.89621
Nomad is an historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalized account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.
The Night Is Bright, 1h38
Directed by Roman Balaïan
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about disabilities
Actors Irina Kouptchenko, Vladimir Gostioukhine
Roles Ecrivain
Rating66% 3.32753.32753.32753.32753.3275
Deux jeunes enseignants, Alexeï et Lika, travaillent dans un internat pour handicapés. Ils sont amoureux l’un de l’autre mais voudraient savoir si leurs élèves peuvent éprouver un sentiment d’amour aussi. Ils décident de se livrer à une expérience.
The Heart of the Bear, 2h4
Origin Estonie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dinara Droukarova
Rating59% 2.9824852.9824852.9824852.9824852.982485
Niika quitte la ville pour partir s'installer en Sibérie. Il devient chasseur et vit en harmonie avec la nature, et il est même rapidement accepté par une tribu des nomades de la taïga. Lors d'une promenade en forêt, il croise une femelle ourse qui se montre plutôt câline. Sur le chemin, il rencontre une jeune femme d'une tribu, blessée et enveloppée dans une peau d'ours.
East/West
East/West (1999)
, 2h1
Directed by Régis Wargnier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov, Bohdan Stupka, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Meglena Karalambova
Rating73% 3.693593.693593.693593.693593.69359
After the Second World War, former White Emigres are offered Soviet citizenship, amnesty, and an invitation to return to the Motherland, so that they could join in the post-war reconstruction. While most of the émigrés decide to remain abroad, there are many people anxious to return to the ‘Holy Russia’. Among the returnees are Alexei Golovin (Oleg Menshikov), his French wife Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire) and their son Sergey. But Joseph Stalin's offer was merely a tactical step.
The Barber of Siberia, 3h
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Actors Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov, Marina Neïolova, Alexeï Petrenko, Daniel Olbrychski
Roles Ecrivain
Rating76% 3.846283.846283.846283.846283.84628
Jane Callahan (Julia Ormond), a beautiful American lady, writes to her son, a cadet at a famous military academy, about a long kept secret. Twenty years ago she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken (Richard Harris), an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich's patronage to sponsor his invention, a massive machine to harvest the forests. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy (Oleg Menshikov) with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her. Tolstoy and Radlov, much to the surprise and indignation of the latter, become rivals for Jane's love. She confides a deep secret to Tolstoy, promises to marry him, and together they spend a passionate night of love. But later he overhears Jane denying her interest in him to the General, in order to win the general's favour and be granted an audience with the Grand Duke. Distraught, Tolstoy attacks the General who arrests his young rival on false charges and banishes him to Siberia to seven years of hard labor and five years of isolation.
Burnt by the Sun, 2h28
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about families, Politique, Prison films, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadejda Mikhalkova, Inna Oulianova, André Oumansky
Rating77% 3.8955553.8955553.8955553.8955553.895555
The Soviet Union, summer 1936. Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia (Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė), and their young daughter Nadia are relaxing in a banya, when they are suddenly interrupted. A peasant from the local collective farm explains that the Soviet Army's tanks are about to crush the wheat harvest as part of general maneuvers. Although annoyed to be bothered during his vacation, Kotov rides on horseback to where the tank crews are confronting outraged peasants.
Close to Eden, 2h
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Badema, Nikita Mikhalkov
Roles Ecrivain
Rating75% 3.7934753.7934753.7934753.7934753.793475
A Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. They are portrayed as unsophisticated and traditional and Gombo desires relations with his wife, to try for a fourth child, which puts his wife at unease due to Chinese law. Intoxicated Russian buffoonish truck driver Sergei has stranded himself, driving his truck into a river and is picked up by Gombo, taken to his family's yurt, to join him in dinner. Gombo's family are particularly taken with Sergei's back tattoos, later revealed to be sheet music for "On the Hills of Manchuria". Gombo and Sergei become mutual dependencies despite their language and cultural differences. Gombo and Sergei go into the nearest city together, where Gombo is supposed to buy contraceptives (condoms), buying a television set and other goods, but not contraceptives due to drugstore staff being women. Sergei, a former army bandsman, becomes drunk and sings "On the Hills of Manchuria" in a nightclub, with the band playing from his back tattoos. He is arrested and bailed out of jail by Gombo.
Interrogation, 1h26
Directed by Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rasim Ojagov
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rasim Balayev, Evgueni Lebedev, Mirzə Babayev
Roles Ecrivain
Rating76% 3.8290353.8290353.8290353.8290353.829035
The investigator Seifi Ganiev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds.
The Birthday Party, 1h11
Directed by Rasim Ojagov
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Yaşar Nuri
Rating83% 4.199124.199124.199124.199124.19912
This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing visions of the world, yet sharing true and lasting friendship.
The White Sun of the Desert, 1h25
Directed by Vladimir Moty
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Military humor in film, Politique, Political films
Actors Anatoly Kuznetsov, Spartak Michouline, Kakhi Kavsadze, Raïssa Kourkina, Musa Abdievich Doudaïev, Andreï Smirnov
Roles Ecrivain
Rating76% 3.844023.844023.844023.844023.84402
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (modern Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. The movie opens with a panoramic shot of a bucolic Russian countryside. Katerina Matveyevna, Sukhov's beloved wife, is standing in a field. Awakening from this daydream, Sukhov is walking through the Central Asian desert – a stark contrast to his homeland. He finds Sayid buried in the sand. Sayid, an austere Central Asian, will come to Sukhov's rescue in sticky situations throughout the movie. Sukhov frees Sayid, and they strike a friendly but reticent relationship. While traveling together they are caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rakhimov, leaves to Sukhov the harem, which was abandoned by the Basmachi leader Abdullah, for temporary protection. He also leaves a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, and proceeds to pursue the fleeing Abdullah.