Ismail Efendiyev

Acting

Ismail Efendiyev

Born 1910-08-10 · Shamakhi, Shemakhinskiy uezd, Bakinskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Acting credits

The Game of Love poster
8.0

The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.

The Game of Love

1935

Sabuhi poster
7.0

The film is dedicated to the life and creative work of the great Azerbaijani educator, playwright, and philosopher, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, affectionately known as Sabuhi, meaning “man of the morning.”

Sabuhi

1941

No artwork available
NR

Based on the novel of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn. Engineer-geologist Imanov assembles a young team to explore presumed oil reserves beneath the Black Rocks despite his superior Halilov’s bans. When the ministry greenlights offshore drilling, Halilov’s sabotage and political attacks only strengthen Imanov and his colleagues’ resolve to prove the field’s potential.

The Black Stones

1956

Bakhtiyar poster
4.0

The film is about oilman who had beautiful voice. He didn't attach great importance to his friends is advice to get special music reward. But he changed his attitude to art under the influence of his friends.

Bakhtiyar

1955

Under the Burning Sun poster
NR

The hero of the film coming to the village for a short while decided to stay there by his medical duty.

Under the Burning Sun

1957

No artwork available
NR

An artistic documentary film that tells the story of the hardships endured by workers behind the front lines during the Great Patriotic War.

Sovgat

1942

Arshin Takes a Wife poster
6.6

Set in Baku at the turn of the 20th century, a young successful businessman Asgar wishes to marry. He wants his bride to be the choice of his heart, however, Azerbaijani tradition restricted him from communicating with the lady as a lover before marriage. So Asgar decides to disguise himself as a mere cloth peddler and the young woman Gulchohra falls in love with him.

Arshin Takes a Wife

1945

If Not This, Then That poster
6.4

Popularly known by the name of the main character, "Mashadi Ibad" was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman Gulnaz who falls in love with a young man Sarvar but is obliged to marry someone else.

If Not This, Then That

1958

Fatali Khan poster
7.0

A historical film about the struggle in the 18th century of the young ruler of the Kuban Khanate, Fatali Khan, who sought to unite the scattered khanates into a single Azerbaijani state.

Fatali Khan

1947

The New Skyline poster
6.5

Young engineer is fighting against conservatives who don't want to find new oil deposits.

The New Skyline

1941

The Shadows are Crawling poster
7.0

Young scientist Jamal Zakhidov is convinced that the ruins of the ancient city of Aran are located in Azerbaijan. Zakhidov is seeking to organize an expedition to the area where he believes Aran is located. Zahidov's friend, a young archaeologist named Jalil, is also well versed in geology. He believes that the rocks he accidentally found at the foot of Gyzyl-Gaya contain valuable materials. But Imam-zade, a secret agent of a foreign intelligence service, steals these samples. The expedition members meet an old man named Murtaz. The old man recognizes Imam-zade as the son of Suleiman-bek, the former ruler of these lands, who killed geologist Karimov, who was conducting research here in 1920. Realizing that he has been exposed, Imam-zade blows up the cave in an attempt to destroy the expedition. But the locals rescue the expedition members. Imam-zade is detained by MGB officers. Uranium is found in the rocks discovered by Jalil at the excavation site...

The Shadows are Crawling

1958

Man Casts an Anchor poster
7.0

The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.

Man Casts an Anchor

1967

The Son of Native Land poster
NR

The film is about Kamal Gasimov's heroic fighting at the front.

The Son of Native Land

1941

The Labour and Rose poster
9.5

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

The Labour and Rose

1963

Who Do We Love More? poster
NR

The movie almanac is dedicated to athletes. Three short stories ("Through the Mountain Forest", "The Top", The Force of Gravity") tell about mutual help, friendship, public duty and the formation of the character of a real person.

Who Do We Love More?

1964

By the Bluest of Seas poster
6.4

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.

By the Bluest of Seas

1936

Behind the camera