director, screenwriter, director of photography
(11.09.1913 – 07.05.1998)

Mukhtar Baba oglu Dadashov was born in Baku. At the age of 6, he played the role of Gunduz in the play “Sevil” at the National Drama Theater. He worked as an actor and director’s assistant at the National Drama Theater (1924-1929), Young Audience Theater (1929-1931). Since 1931, he started working as a director at the Baku film studio. In 1933, he went to Moscow to study film director. He participated in the shooting of a number of films there. During the Second World War, he went to the front as a film director. He worked as an artistic director of the Documentary Films Union at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio (1977-1983). His film “By Happiness” was awarded a gold medal at the All-Union Festival in Moscow, and his film “Nariman Narimanov” was awarded a special prize in Tbilisi. He is the first Azerbaijani director to win an award at the Cannes International Film Festival. His film “Soviet Azerbaijan” was awarded a special prize at the Cannes Festival (1951) in the nomination “best documentary”. Mukhtar Dadashov played the role of Abdurahim in the Tajik film “Living God” (1934, directed by Dmitry Vasiliev, Mikhail Werner). State prize laureate (1980), Honored artist (1960), People’s artist (1976) Mukhtar Dadashov died in 1998.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Twenty six commissioners (1932, feature film) – assistant cinematographer
2. Nomads (1933, full-length documentary film) – assistant cinematographer
3. Lokbatan (1933, short documentary film) – director of photography
4. Symphony of oil (1933, short documentary film) – director of photography
5. Dancing gardens (1935, short feature film) – director of photography
6. Orderly Azerbaijan (1938, full-length documentary film) – director of photography
7. 25th Anniversary of the International Youth Day in Baku (1939, short documentary film) – director of photography
8. Peasants (1939, feature film) – second feature director
9. Samur-Devachi channel named after Stalin (1939, short documentary film) – director of photography
10. Baku is ready! (1940, short documentary film) – director of photography
11. Twentieth spring (1940, short documentary film) – director of photography
12. Samur-Devachi channel (1940, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
13. New horizon (1940, feature film) – director of photography
14. Son of the motherland (1941, short feature film) – director of photography
15. German atrocities in the North Caucasus (1943, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
16. Submarine T-9 (1943, feature film) – second director of photography
17. Baku is fighting (1944, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
18. Congress of Transcaucasian Muslim Clergy (1944, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
19. Arshin Mal Alan (II) (1945, feature film) – director of photography
20. Victory day (1945, short documentary film) – director of photography
21. Departure of Red Army units from Iran (1946, short documentary film) – director of photography
22. Topchubashov’s apparatus (1946, short documentary film) – director of photography
23. Beyond Araz (1947, full-length documentary film) – director of photography
24. The evening concert (1948, short documentary television film) – director, cinematographer
25. Azerbaijan builds (1948, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
26. Soviet Azerbaijan (1948, short documentary film) – director of photography
27. 25 years without Lenin (1949, short documentary) – director of photography
28. Mingachevir (1949, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
29. Mingachevir (II) (1950, short documentary film) – screenwriter
30. Morning song (1950, short documentary film) – director, cinematographer
31. Soviet Azerbaijan (II) (1950, short documentary film) – director, cinematographer
32. Budyonny in Baku (1952, short documentary television film) – director
33. On the shores of Araz (1953, full-length documentary film) – director, cinematographer
34. Dreams come true (1954, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
35. By happiness (1956, full-length documentary) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
36. Masters of white gold (1958, full-length documentary) – director, screenwriter
37. Our Azerbaijan (1959, full-length documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
38. Native land, Azerbaijan (1960, full-length documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
39. Sabir (1962, short documentary film) – director
40. Kura (1963, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
41. Arshin Mal Alan (III) (1965, full-length feature film) – screenwriter
42. Eternal brother (1965, full-length documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
43. Nariman Narimanov (1966, short documentary film) – director, cinematographer
44. For the sake of the law (1968, feature film) – director, screenwriter
45. 50 years of Soviet Azerbaijan (1970, full-length documentary film) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
46. The truth about my republic (1972, full-length documentary) – director, screenwriter, cinematographer
47. The wind blows in Baku (1974, feature film) – director, screenwriter
48. 60 years of Azerbaijani cinema (1976, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
49. L.I. Brezhnev in Baku (1979, full-length documentary film) – director, screenwriter
50. Third order of Lenin to the Republic (1983, full-length documentary) – director, screenwriter
51. Baku-42 (1985, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter