film director

(07.02.1919 – 27.08.1998)

Tofig Tagizade, son of Mehdigulu was born Baku. In 1938, he entered the energy department of the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemical Institute. In the third year, he voluntarily went to the war. At the end of 1942, he was wounded near Rostov and returned. After graduating from the film directing faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (workshop of Sergey Yutkevich and Lev Kuleshov) (1946-1953), he started working at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio. A private studio named “TMT” has operated. Honored Artist of Chechnya (1964), Honored Artist of Chechnya (1960), People’s Artist (1976) Tofig Tagizade died in 1998.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Meeting (1955, full length feature film) – director
2. His great heart (1958, full length feature film) – actor
3. Distant lands (1958, full length feature film) – director
4. True friend (1959, full length feature film) – director
5. Matteo Falkone (1961, short feature film) – director, screenwriter, actor (Canetta)
6. Labour and rose (1962, full length feature film) – director
7. “Archin mal alan” (III) (1965, full length feature film) – director, screenwriter
8. I wasn’t a beauty (1968, full length feature film) – director
9. I want seven sons (1970, full length feature film) – director
10. Flamingo (1972, full length feature film) – director, actor (chairman Teymur Mukhtarov)
11. Dede Gorgut (1975, full length feature film) – director
12. Home’s man (1978, full length feature film) – director
13. Strange man (1979, full length feature film) – actor (drunk)
14. I want to understand (1980, full length feature film) – actor (director Ogtay Mamedovich)
15. Grandfather grandfather of our grandfather (1981, full length feature film) – director
16. Box found in the fortress (1982, full length feature film) – actor (professor)
17. Summer season (1985, full length feature film) – director
18. Bloody ground (1985, full length feature film) – actor (plaintiff peasant)
19. Cave (1990, full length feature film) – actor (pianist)
20. Wedding ring (1991, full length feature film) – actor (foreign)
21. Greetings from other world (1991, full length feature film) – director, screenwriter, actor (one of the resurrected)
22. Hungry men (1993, full length film-performance) – actor (Mirza Mahmud)
23. Dog (1994, full length feature film) – director, screenwriter