Acting

Nizami Musayev

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

Nizami Musayev was a Soviet Azerbaijani actor, director, screenwriter, and stuntman. He began acting in films in 1981, designing and performing his own stunts. In 1992, he was the head of the Anti-Banditry and Terrorism Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Acting credits

The Joke poster
5.8

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

The Joke

1990

The Instigator poster
NR

The hero of the film tries to find the way out from his problems and difficulties.

The Instigator

1987

The Scoundrel poster
5.9

Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.

The Scoundrel

1989

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You poster
6.8

In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

1981

If I Die, Forgive Me poster
5.0

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.

If I Die, Forgive Me

1989

Wait for the Signal from the Sea poster
7.0

The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.

Wait for the Signal from the Sea

1986

Saddle these Horses poster
4.0

The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.

Saddle these Horses

1985

The Jinn in Microdistrict poster
8.0

The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Egit Iskenderov) finds an ancient lamp placed in the jaw. For the talented but poor character Rustam, this lamp shatters the sky. With the help of jinn, the young man suceeds: his play is made on anchor; his girlfriend, Maya (Natalia Tagiyeva), agrees to marry him, and the bar is in the apartment. But Rustam wants to achieve everything. When the jinn throws away his "owner," he unveils the secret: a person must believe in his own power, and there must be a strong desire to create miracles.

The Jinn in Microdistrict

1986

The Knights of Black Lake poster
NR

After the story of the same name of S. Veliyev. It's devoted about life concerns of oil workers and their children.

The Knights of Black Lake

1984

Behind the camera