Directing

Latif Safarov

Born — Died

1920-09-30 — 1963-12-09

Place of birth

Shusha, Elizavetpolskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

IMDb profile

Latif Bashir oghlu Safarov (Azerbaijani: Lətif Səfərov) was an Azerbaijani actor and movie director. Safarov began his career in acting at a very young age. He starred in a number of children's movies released in 1927–1931 (Sevil, Latif, etc.). In 1939, he graduated from the Ganja School of Pedagogy. For the next two years was continued acting along as serving as an assistant director at the Baku Movie Studio (renamed to Azerbaijanfilm in 1960). In 1950, he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, receiving B.A. in Film Directing. The 1955 film Bakhtiyar (starring Rashid Behbudov) directed by Safarov was his most significant project. It was followed by two other well-known …

Known for

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

5.8

After the play of same name of Jafar Jabbarli. This melodrama is about the woman who had unhappy homelife and tried to free herself from shariat rules.

Sevil

1929

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

6.0

Latif a seven year old boy living during the collectivization policy in USSR.

Latif

1930

1.0

After the literary work of the same name of Nizami Ganjavi and Mahammad Fuzuli. The film is about pure love of two young people.

Leyli and Majnun

1961

5.0

This drama is about Gilan's downfall in 1920th under onslaught of Iran's shah & English army.

Gilan's Daughter

1928

Film credits

1930s · 1 titles

6.0