film director, actor

(15.05.1944)

Abdul Alisa oghlu Mahmudbeyov (Sheikh Abdul) was born in Atbulag village of Hajigabul district. Originally from Shirvan-Gobustan region. He studied drama and film acting at the Azerbaijan State Theater Institute named after M.A. Aliyev (1962-1966-the class of People’s Artist of the USSR, professor Adil Iskenderov), at the director’s department of the Higher course of directing and screenwriters in Moscow (1971-1973, the workshop of Leonid Trauberg and Georgy Danelia). Since 1966, he worked as an actor in the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio. He was the artistic director of the cinema-actor theater under the cinema studio. State award winner (1986), Honored art worker, People’s artist and President’s scholarship holder, winner of the Republic’s Main Film Award, Chairman of the Inspection Commission of the Azerbaijan Professional Film Directors Guild. He is a doctor of art of MYA.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Two people from one neighborhood (1957, full-length feature film) – actor
2. Leyli and Majnun (1961, feature film) – actor
3. Where is Ahmed? (1963, feature film) – actor (villager)
4. Jalil Mammadguluzade (1966, short documentary film) – assistant director
5. Battle in the Mountains (1967, feature film) – actor, assistant director
6. I Wasn’t Beautiful (1968, feature film) – second director
7. The Last Night of Childhood (1968, feature film) – actor
8. Bizim Jabish teacher (1969, full-length feature film) – the second director
9. Deli Kur (1969, full-length feature film) – second director
10. Bread with Sharikli (1969, feature film) – actor (shopper at the market)
11. Find That Girl (1970, feature film) – actor (member of a mobster)
12. I want seven sons (1970, full-length feature film) – actor (Gasim)
13. The Last Pass (1971, full-length feature film) – actor (Gentlemen)
14. The Most Important Interview (1971, feature film) – actor (Fikret)
15. Muslim Magomayev sings (1971, full-length documentary film) – director
16. Nasimi (II) (1973, feature film) – actor (dervish)
17. The First Hour of Life (1973, feature film) – actor (photographer)
18. In the footsteps of the shepherds (1974, feature film) – actor (The Stranger)
19. Gatir Mammad (1974, feature film) – actor (Bolshevik)
20. Unusual Hunt (1974, short feature film) – director (diploma film)
21. Four Sundays (1975, feature film) – actor
22. Firangiz (1975, feature film) – production director
23. Ajami Nakhchivani (1976, short documentary film) – production director
24. Love of a lifetime (1976, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
25. Bay of Joy (1977, feature film) – actor (Abdul)
26. Face to the Wind (1977, feature film) – production director
27. Friendship of Cities (1978, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
28. Diploma work (1979, short feature film) – actor (girl’s brother)
29. The Meaning of Life (1979, short documentary film) – director
30. The Strange Man (1979, feature film) – actor (Orkhan)
31. Wait for me (1980, feature film) – second director
32. Do not be afraid, I am with you! (1981, feature film) – actor (pickpocket)
33. Bloody Ground (1985, feature film) – production director
34. Urban reapers (1986, feature film) – production director (together with Huseyn Mehdiyev)
35. Laughing Whites (1988, short documentary film) – actor
36. Native shores (1989, feature film) – production director
37. Murder on a Night Train (1990, feature film) – producer, director, screenwriter
38. Killing Day (1990, full-length feature film) – actor (Tatar Temir)
39. Side effect (2010, feature film) – actor (Nazim Sheydayev)
40. Network (2011, short feature film) – actor (Gulzar’s father Farrukh)
41. Our blood memory (2013, short documentary television film) – producer, director, screenwriter
42. 4.1 City motifs – 86 Dmitrov Street (2015, feature film, cinema almanac) – actor
43. 4.1 Urban motifs – Honor of an officer (2015, full-length feature film, film almanac) – actor
44. Thyme (2017, feature film) – actor (police chief)
45. The Winter’s Tale – There was one, one was not… (2019, full-length feature film) – actor
46. A Winter’s Tale – Three apples fell from the sky… (2019, feature film) – actor
47. Hozu (feature film) – actor